Slovakia

The largest and oldest three-nave Gothic church in Bratislava, consecrated in 1452 on the site of an earlier Romanesque church, now serving as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Bratislava. Its 85-meter neo-Gothic tower is topped by a 300-kg gilded replica of the Hungarian royal crown, commemorating the coronation of Hungarian monarchs here between 1563 and 1830. Inside stands Georg Raphael Donner's 1734 lead sculpture of St. Martin dividing his cloak.

National Cultural Monument of Slovakia (národná kultúrna pamiatka)Rudnayovo námestie 1, 811 01 Bratislava

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One of only five surviving Protestant Articular wooden churches in Slovakia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2008) on the banks of the Hron River, erected entirely of oak and larch timber without a single iron nail in exactly one year between October 23, 1725 and October 31, 1726 under the strict stipulations of the 1681 Diet of Sopron, renowned for its Greek-cross floor plan, Scandinavian ship-carpentry vaults, 1,100-seat amphitheater galleries, and freestanding wooden bell tower.

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed July 7, 2008, Ref. 1273) and National Cultural Monument of the Slovak RepublicKrcmeryho ulica, 976 31 Hronsek, Banska Bystrica District, Slovak Republic

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The sole surviving and active synagogue in Slovakia's capital Bratislava (historic Pressburg, once one of Central Europe's premier centers of Orthodox Torah scholarship under Rabbi Moses Sofer, the Chatam Sofer), constructed between 1923 and 1926 after a pioneering Cubist-Modernist design by architect Artur Szalatnai-Slatinsky with a monumental seven-columned travertine street colonnade, housing both an active Orthodox prayer hall and the Jewish Community Museum established in 2012.

Sole Surviving and Active Synagogue in Bratislava, Seat of the Jewish Community Museum (Zidovske komunitne muzeum), and National Cultural Monument of the Slovak RepublicHeydukova 11-13, Stare Mesto District, 811 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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The largest church in Slovakia and the easternmost monumental High and Late Gothic cathedral of the Western architectural canon in Europe, constructed between c. 1378 and 1508 on the main square of Kosice and restored by Imre Steindl in 1877 to 1896, celebrated for its 59-meter Sigismund Tower, the 1477 High Altar of Saint Elisabeth with Europe's largest cycle of 48 painted Gothic wing panels, the double-spiral Royal Staircase, and the crypt of Prince Francis II Rakoczi.

Largest Church in Slovakia, Metropolitan Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kosice, and National Cultural Monument of the Slovak Republic (designated in 1970)Hlavna ulica 30, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic

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One of the oldest and best-preserved Eastern-rite wooden churches in the Carpathian Mountains of northeastern Slovakia (inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008), built of hewn larch logs in 1658 atop a hill in the Rusyn village of Bodruzal in the classic three-part Lemko style with three stepped shingle-covered tented towers crowned by onion domes and wrought-iron crosses, preserving late-eighteenth-century wall paintings of the Last Judgment and a four-tier Rococo iconostasis.

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed July 7, 2008, Ref. 1273) and National Cultural Monument of the Slovak Republic (designated in 1968)Bodruzal 18, 090 05 Bodruzal, Svidnik District, Presov Region, Slovak Republic

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