The 1935 building is square-shaped, has two floors and a basement, a veranda in the front with the entrance and to a gallery with an openwork railing. The entire structure is boarded and covered by a shingle roof. Decorative finishes of the gables and the veranda refer to the Zakopane style, which was popular in inter-war Poland. The Podwilk parish church was built by priest Jan Góralik, a person well-respected and important in Orawa who was an excellent gazda, an organiser of religious and social life, and a devoted servant to those in need. Thanks to him, the Kasa Stefczyka in Podwilk was founded in 1928 (the institution still operates today as the Cooperative Bank in Jabłonka). World War II interrupted his activities. German soldiers were killed in the vicinity of the church on 1 September 1939. In retaliation, Rev. Góralik, the vicar and a group of parishioners were seized by the Germans on the following day and this was how their wandering through German prisoner and concentration camps started. According to those who witnessed his last days, Rev. Góralik was a charismatic priest who entrusted his suffering to God and tried to lift the spirits of fellow prisoners. He was killed in Dachau in 1942.