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Evangelical Articular Churches

Kežmarok The Baroque interior of
the church is also made
of wood. The church organ
with wooden pipes is of
One of the best preserved Slovak wooden sacral buildings is the articu- immense artistic value.
lar Evangelical church in Kežmarok. In 2008, along with seven wooden
churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area, it was included
on the UNESCO‘s Word Heritage List.
The Evangelical church was built in 1717 next to an older sacral stone
building from 1593, which today is a sacristy. This unique wooden build-
ing made of yew and red spruce wood was
built without using a single metal compo-
nent and its ground plan is in the form
of a Greek cross.