Historical outline
The village is situated on the Cherniava River, 24 km west of Horodenka. The oldest traces of civilisation in the Obertyn area date back to the Upper Palaeolithic. The oldest official references appearing in written historical sources date back to the 15th century. The town is known for the famous victorious battle which Polish troops fought nearby on 22 VIII 1531 against a four times larger Moldavian army. Former owners of Obertyn include: Dersław of Bybl, Obertyński, Tomasz Wolski, Maciej Dzieciartowski, Mikołaj Czeremowski, Maciej Dobrzyński, Aleksander Sielecki, Kalinowski and Rusiecki.

However, it must be clearly emphasised that the ownership of the estate underwent numerous changes over the centuries, and sometimes even decades. Over time Obertyn was divided up, appeared in parts, was often leased, and often returned to its previous owners. The settlement also experienced strong historical turbulences, such as the Tatar invasion in 1594. It is also worth noting that the town gained and lost town rights several times. Among the most historically significant administrators, apart from the Obertyńskis, from whom the name of the administrative unit derives, we should mention Rafał Skarbek (second half of the 18th century). It was he who established a parish in Obertyn and founded the first (wooden) church. Interestingly, it was not a Roman Catholic parish. Skarbek professed the Armenian rite. This caused resentment on the part of Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski, who considered the move to be completely irrational, as it appeared that the founder had established the parish mainly for himself. There were hardly any Armenian Catholics in the village. Instead, there were quite a few Roman Catholics. Despite demands to build a church for Latin Catholics, who were too far away from Zhukov, which was Obertyn's subordinate, it was finally agreed that the building would be used by adherents of both rites. As Michal Kurzej cites in his study of the building: "In 1766, Rafal Skarbek's son Jan asked the curia that the care of the worshippers of the Latin rite be entrusted to an Armenian clergyman, Fr Jakub Lazarowicz."

Less than two decades later, the parish was taken over by the Latin archbishopric. An exchange was made with the Armenian diocese for the parish of Lysias. In the second half of the following century, there was a need to build a new building, this time of brick, as the old one was close to ruin. In 1889, the wooden temple was demolished. Services were held in a temporary chapel. A new building was erected and consecrated in 1891, although, according to sources, it was not yet completed at that time. The final touches were probably put in place before 1905, when the consecration took place.

In the 19th century, the village (in those parts that were not parcelled out and constituted a coherent estate) was again in the hands of the Kalinowskis. Later (in fragments) it belonged to Stefan Aywas, Antoni Bienicki, Jan Obertynski, Antoni Janocha, Józefa Kellermanowa, Kazimiera Kellerman, Karol Dworzak, Zygmunt Brettler, Józeg Prokocimer, Piotr Romaszkan and Noah Sokolowski, among others.

The church did not suffer any damage during the First World War. The Austrian authorities confiscated only the bell. This did not change the fact that the building still required numerous repairs, which took place in the inter-war period. Another global conflict brought damage to the parish buildings. The last parish priest, Emilian Fijałkowski, leaving the village only in 1945, took away some of the furnishings, which eventually returned to the former inhabitants of Obertyn. Already in the western territories, they deposited them in the parish of Wierzbno.

From 1944 to 1946 the church functioned as a Greek-Catholic church and then as a warehouse. In the early 1960s it was demolished and the bricks were used to build houses.

The Obertine parish was reactivated in the 1990s. The former cinema building was adapted as a church. Interestingly, today there is an Armenian-Catholic parish in Obertyn, which refers in tradition to "Rafael Skarbek" (Raphael the Treasurer) and his 18th century foundation.

Architecture
The building was located in the centre of the village on the road to Chocimierz. The church (on the plan of a cross) was built on stone foundations and bricked up. The presbytery faced west. The longitudinal arm of the "cross" was formed by the nave and chancel, and the transept by the transverse arm. An annex was added to the front of the nave, which was equal in height to the nave but narrower. Two vestries on two sides were attached to the chancel.

The interior was covered with wooden pseudo-vaulted ceilings. The wooden music choir was supported by two pillars.

The facades were built on a plinth and articulated with lisens supporting a broken beam above. The front elevation was obscured by an annex with a (probably wooden) tower. The front elevation of the nave was mostly obscured by the annexe. Down the middle was a large rectangular entrance opening terminating in a sharp arch. It was decorated with a moulded frame bearing the inscription SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA.

At the top, just below the 'tower' section, was a triangular abutment framed by corner pedestals with crosses.

The roofs over all parts of the church were gabled. The tower in the façade (most likely wooden) was topped by a high pyramidal roof. At the intersection of the ridge of the nave and the transept was an apex turret: hexagonal, sheet metal, topped with a roof similar to that of the façade.

The building no longer exists. As Michal Kurzej writes in his study, its general style was described as Gothic. Based on the surviving photographs, it can be concluded that, despite the fact that the church was built at the end of the 19th century, stylistically it contains elements characteristic of earlier phases of historicism. "Clumsy shapes" and "stylistic backwardness" also indicate that its creator was not a professional architect.