wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians
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How it came to be
About 50 wooden churches survive in the Carpathian part of north-east Slovakia, and eight of them form the World Heritage site: two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three of the Byzantine rite. They were built between the 16th and 18th centuries, most of them in isolated villages, and show Latin and Byzantine traditions meeting in a small area.
The three Protestant buildings are known as articular churches. The articles of the 1681 Diet of Sopron allowed Protestants to build churches, but only within a single year, without metal parts and without a tower. The church at Lestiny was finished in 1688; at Hronsek work began on 23 October 1725 and ended the next autumn. The church at Kezmarok, built in 1717, holds more than 1,500 worshippers.
Among the Byzantine-rite churches, St Nicholas at Bodruzal, built in 1658, has three towers topped with small onion domes. The Church of the Archangel Michael at Ladomirova was built in 1742 without a single nail. The eight churches were inscribed in 2008.
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