evangelický kostel v Hrubé Vrbce Church

The Evangelical Prayer in Hrubé Vrbka, registered in the register of cultural monuments in 2022, speaks of a repressed minority, which gradually gained space for its own religious life. The territory of today's Hrubý Vrbky was one of the guardianship whose owners tried to bring the population to his Catholic religion after 1620. Pressure threw people out of the region: between 1719 and 1749 234 evangelists left this village. Yet there was a significant group of secret non-Catholics who openly applied to Lutheran's religion immediately after the Tolerance Patent was declared. In 1782 a local choir was established and the construction of the church began without delay.

But the Tolerance patent did not mean total freedom. The Evangelical Prayer was not allowed to stand in the middle of the village, nor was it allowed to have a tower or main entrance from the main street. The first building therefore entered on the edge of the village between the barn as a wooden building. The forest provided local land and wood to the construction of all the families that owned the horse's clothing. This house of prayer served believers for 48 years, until 1830 when a new church grew up in the same place.

The church built in 1830 represents a classical, simple architectural shape, respecting the original restriction of the Tolerance Patent. It has rectangular windows and a saddle roof covered with burnt bags. It gradually changed and expanded: after the middle of the 19th century, wooden belfry was added, and in the early 20th century it switched to renewal. In the 1940s, a four-sided bell tower with a clock machine was built on the southwest side of the entrance facade, with a lower extension of the hall with wooden doors on the north side.

The interior is typical of the evangelical churches of the Australian religion in Upper Hungary. Two circles on the opposite shorter sides, the altar next to the circle and the pulpit on the side speak of a different understanding of liturgy. The organ comes from the time of Pastor Emil Pellar (1875-1891). The Iron Bell dedicated the Evangelical Choir from Prusinovic in 1948, since 2012 the church bears a new bell, bronze.

Other buildings belong to the prayer house. The rectory was built already in 1785, formerly the clergymen lived in the cottage. The new parish grew up in the middle of the 19th century and later became a choir house. The evangelical school, whose foundation stone was laid in 1783, had a difficult fate: originally without permission, later allowed, burned down in 1842 and was immediately rebuilt. The new school building consecrated in September 1884 served children until the abolition of church schools in 1923.

Today the prayer room with historical interior is a valuable church and cultural-historical building. Despite the additional construction arrangements, she retained the character of her creation and position - a unique witness to the life of evangelists in a landscape where their faith should not be given space.