Roofs
Tiered timber.
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The Kežmarok wooden articular church is a Lutheran church in the town of Kežmarok in northern Slovakia, about 13 km northeast of Poprad in a straight line. It is one of the «Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area» on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The town's Lutherans built it under articles of the Diet of Sopron of 1681, which allowed two churches in each of eleven counties on strict conditions: they had to use the cheapest material, wood, even for the nails, and be finished within 365 days. Protestants from several countries, including Sweden and Denmark, helped fund it. Its only stone part is the sacristy, built in 1593 as a pub outside the town walls and later joined to the church. The building has white walls with small round windows under tiered brown wooden roofs set at sharp angles, in a wide square beside a newer red Lutheran church. Visitors admire the church from outside, go inside during visiting hours to see its wooden interior, then explore the old town of Kežmarok and its nearby castle.
Tiered timber.
Small and round.
And castle.
Kežmarok, Slovakia
Yes, during visiting hours.
Kežmarok castle.
