The wooden church from Lechința is the only wooden church that has been preserved in the Land of Oaș. It was built at the beginning of the 17th century (approximately 1629) in the village of Lechința, part of the current commune of  Călinești-Oaș.

In 1939, when it has been photographed by the ethnographer Ioniță G. Andron, the church was still whole. 20 years later, the church was a ruin. At the insistence of the same ethnographer, the construction was dismantled in the mid-1960s, and the recovered material was stored in Negrești-Oaș.

The church was restored for the first time by a team of craftsmen from Maramureș, on the same place where it stands today between 1970 and 1980.

In 2006, as part of a PHARE funded project, the current and much more correct restoration was carried out . On the same occasion, a completely unusual project was carried out: an 18th century church mural was reconstructed, following the model of the wooden churches in Maramureș.

The painting itself was made by the Negresți-Oaș artists I. Gozman, D. Petrehuș, Ion D. Ion and Corneliu Pop.