Historical outline
The village is situated to the south of Mościska on the road to Sambor. Krukienice was first mentioned as early as the 15th century, when a parish was established there. The foundation act dates back to 1439. At first the town belonged to the Rychcicki family, then to the Chyniowski and Drohojowski families. In the 17th c. Krukienice came under the rule of the Bełsk voivode Adam Stadnicki, later his son Jan Kazimierz, who sold the town to the Lviv archbishop Stanislaw Grochowski and his brothers.

The earliest mention of the local church dates back to the 1730s. The year 1671 is recorded as a moment of significant enrichment of the parish thanks to the initiative of Mateusz and Anna Grochowski. At the end of the 17th century the town was bequeathed to the Rybiński brothers (sons of Anna of Grochowska). At the beginning of the next century, they sold the estate to the Drohojowskis, but the transaction was challenged by the sellers' creditors. The process went on for quite a long time. Eventually, however, the Drohojowskis were established as the rightful owners. They ruled the village, most probably, until the end of the 19th century. The next recorded owners were Włodzimierz Słotwiński (early 20th century) and Michał Tiegier (inter-war period).

The parish church of St Matthew the Evangelist was built over quite a long period. In the 1720s it was decided that the village needed a new building, as the condition of the existing one left much to be desired. Construction began before 1728 and dragged on for several decades. This was most likely due to the wars, fires and epidemics that plagued Krukienice at the time. The building was consecrated in 1752, although over the following years it required improvements and renovations. According to sources, however, the most important work was completed in the early 1750s, i.e. just before the consecration. The building underwent another major restoration in 1897, but only a few years later (1905) it was decided that the building "could no longer stand for long; the parish priest is seeking to build a new brick church". The First World War brought minor damage and the confiscation of the bells. The building served as a church until the late 1940s. It was repeatedly repaired and restored at various levels. Later, however, the church was closed and turned into a kolkhoz grain warehouse. It was demolished between 1987 and 1989 and the wood was sold for firewood. A new brick church was built in Krukienice in the early 1990s.

Architecture
Built of oak wood, the building was situated on the southern frontage of the market square. It was surrounded by the church cemetery. According to Piotr Krasny in his study on the church, the body was, probably, a three-nave, hall or pseudo-basilica. The presbytery was built on a rectangular plan, covered with a wooden cradle. It is believed to have been closed with polygons and to have had two rectangular annexes housing the sacristy and the vault. There were two rectangular chapels attached to the body: St Anthony to the north and St Joseph to the south. The nave section was separated from the presbytery by an icicle beam with a crucifix (probably moved from the old church along with some furnishings). The music choir was wooden and supported by two pillars. There were ten window openings in the nave section, and one window each in the sacristy and vault. There were gabled, shingled roofs over the body and chancel, and a bell turret on the ridge of the body.

Little is known about the building, and any information is based on assumptions and conjecture. Of the furnishings, only a box for communion and a chapel donated to the Diocesan Museum in Przemyśl in 1932 have survived.