Wooden articular church in Kežmarok

The Evangelical Church of wood Kežmarok lies in the northen city Kežmarok in the traditional landscape Zips and belongs to the so-called articular. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Right next door is the new evangelical church from the year 1898.

The church was built according to the decisions of the Ödenburger the Parliament of 1681, ie, outside the city walls without solid foundations, tower and bells and only made ​​of wood. Also nails had to be made ​​exclusively of wood. This happened at the expense of the Protestant community. The first church was built in the years 1687-88, however, there is to date no known picture of this church. From this church only a late Renaissance baptismal font from 1690 and stone grave sayings have been preserved from the year 1688. The Baroque building was completed in 1717. Protestants from Northern Europe financially supported the construction and both in Sweden and in Denmark fundraising were arranged.

The floor plan has the form of a Greek cross. The organ was built by Levočské organ builder Vavrinec Čajkovský. The baroque altar with Mary under the cross is flanked by Moses and Aaron.

The church can accommodate 1,500 worshipers on the ground floor and the six galleries. In 1985, the church was declared a national cultural monument. After the end of communism in 1989, the church was extensively renovated in the 1990s: the conversion cost 15 million SKK and was funded by the Slovak government, the city Kežmarok as well as donations of emigrated Carpathian Germans in Germany, Austria and the United States.

Since 2008, the church is part of the UNESCO world heritage: "Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountains ."