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The built object is simultaneously a product of cultural practices and of certain politics and power-relations – that construct a specific space and its contents, in a specific period. As these shift, such culturally-loaded objects become heritage-protected items. The protection targets the conservation of imprints of most often disappeared or threatened practices onto a material form – this being in itself a practice of experiencing the space. The heritage object becomes an isolated enclave, removed from the natural flow of time, thus becoming other in relation with all remaining spaces. Such is the case of the historical wooden churches of Transylvania. Although most of these heritage-objects are no longer ‘practiced’, the cultural practices that created them still exist, preserved almost unaltered. The object itself partially preserves a memory of its practices embedded in its spatial organization (entrance of laity, mandatory cross-sign upon entering). Once the epicentre of rural space, these churches – whether encapsulated in the rural fabric or marginalized – have become isolated enclaves through the ‘heritageisation’ process. They have become hybrid spaces – both sacred spaces of ritual and free-access desacralized public-spaces – and mirrored spaces: in most cases a contemporary church is flanking the old one. As a product of historical politics and power-relations, these churches were forcibly built to disappear, thus their perishable nature. This politics of invisibility shifted to visibility as their identitary-patrimonial status was recognized. They have become contested spaces – being denied their original function: in order to preserve the imprint of cultural practices, these practices are prohibited within the protected space. Although sharing the practices that generated them, the protectionist contemporary policies and the current practices within the communities to which they belong, these wooden churches evolved differently. This chapter proposes a comparative analysis of such cases in an attempt to identify the relationship that led to such radical, even distructive, evolutions.