On the site of the current wooden articular church of St. Michael in Istebno, there was originally a small chapel dating from 1686. In 1730, the chapel was expanded. A tower was added and crypts were made under the church, which gave it its current appearance and the plan of a Greek cross. Its interior contains rare paintings, a Baroque altar with a picture of the Holy Trinity, a pulpit in the Florentine style with statues of the evangelists. A special feature of the church is a wooden chalice, which is supposed to remind of the old times when the Orava people were poor but rich in spirit. The ground plan of the church has the form of a compressed cross with a pronounced longitudinal axis. The large square nave narrows on the eastern side into the altar space, where the gallery is situated. Below it is a small sacristy. The organ gallery built on the opposite side has the shape of the letter U. The organ from 1768 has not been preserved, a new organ was brought to the church in 1931. The wooden beam ceiling in the nave has been replaced several times.