WOODEN ARTICULAR CHURCHES AND THEIR IMPORTED ARCHITECTURAL-LAYOUT MODEL

• Authors: Dudáš Miloš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The wooden articular churches, built on the basis of the conclusions of the 1681 Congress of Sopron, differ in their architectural and layout design from the traditional cultic buildings of Western Christianity. The characteristic longitudinal arrangement of the spaces of the older churches – tower, nave and sanctuary – was replaced during the first half of the 18th century by a new plan form in the shape of a more or less isosceles cross without the dominant accent of the tower or belfry. This layout scheme was based on the ideas of the Reformation and corresponded to the new understanding of sacral space as a common place of gathering of the believers. It is unclear to this day from where and by what route the cruciform architectural model of the Protestant church came to our territory. It was not a product of the local building tradition, but was imported here from abroad, from countries where the Reformation had taken deep roots. The initial pattern originated in the Calvinist milieu of Amsterdam, Holland, and gradually spread further east. It began to be applied very quickly in the Protestant countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia, and it was from these directions that it found its way into the geographical area of the western Carpathians, among the Evangelicals of the Augsburg Confession in the northern provinces of Hungary. It was here that the cruciform plan became one of the characteristic features of their wooden articular churches.

Keywords

EN

CHURCH; ARTICULAR; WOODEN; GROUND FLOOR; PROTESTANT; WESTERN CHRISTIANITY

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 875 - 903

Contributors

author

Dudáš Miloš

• University of Žilina in Žilina, Faculty of Humanities, Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4517-9393

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.5.2