The first Church of St. Matthew on the site was built with wood in the 17th century. It was a single-nave, flat-ceilinged chapel, with a tower to the west and a chancel to the north, and it had no paintings. The brick, single-nave church was built in the Classical Baroque style between 1815 and 1825.In 1911 the wooden roof of the church was destroyed by fire, although the tower with two bells survived. A new parsonage was built In the 1980s and the 1990s; the church was renovated, and the parish cemetery and parsonage were fenced. The inhabitants of the Babia Góra region and the neighbouring Orava region venerate the miracle-working painting of Our Lady of Sidzina, which was made part of the main altar of the church in 1807 and was later moved to the side altar and crowned in 1966. At first, the painting was located in the cemetery Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – the so-called Trzop’s Chapel. It is an image painted on a cedar plank at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries in Dubrovnik, Dalmatia. The painting is a Byzantine icon. Legend has it that it was painted on Mount Athos by an unknown 7th century Greek painter. The local village has a legend that links the creation of the painting with Saint Methodius and the first Piasts. According to said legend, in the 9th century St Methodius gave the painting to the Moravian prince Rastislav of Moravia, and in the 10th century Dobrava, the wife of Mieszko I, brought it to Poland.