The restoration of the wooden monument church Saint Parascheva from Crivina de Sus, a training for the interdisciplinary project team

Abstract

The restoration project of Saint Parascheva wood monument church, started in 2013 in Crivina de Sus village, from another project initiated by the association AsoP, to study the cultural landscape of the Faget Area, where the oldest wooden monument church in the Bant region in Romania is located. Studies commenced in 2013 have shown us that the wooden church is the central element of the landscape while at the same time being in a precarious state of preservation. In the next years, experimental studies on the monument and it's context, realised by specialists and students from areas related to restoration, followed. These investigations have initiated a restoration school that formed an interdisciplinary team for studying and planning restorations of the wooden churches in our region. In the summer of 2018, the actual restoration of the church began, which is also a learning project for the team of restorers and volunteers.