Reformed Church, Veľké Kosihy


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č. 419, 946 21

Veľké Kosihy, slovensko


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The Reformed church in the village was built before the turn of the 18th century, but was destroyed by the earthquake of 1763. A new church was therefore built in 1764, but the building was quickly damaged, so in 1819 a third Reformed church was built in the neoclassical style. The church was repaired many times later. It is an elongated building with a tower in front of the main façade. The straight-ceilinged room has a Protestant wooden emporia on two sides. The façade of the church is adorned with half-timbered frames and segmental-paned windows. The half-timbering is repeated on each floor of the tower, which originally had a low hipped roof but was replaced in the 1960s by a taller conical roof on a disc-shaped cornice. When the church was renovated in 2008, the roof was restored to its original form. The initials D.O.M.U.S. E.H.O.N.A.E.K.K. and the year A. MDCCCXIX are inscribed on the pink marble starting stone of the portal. The white marble master table was made in 1914 in Réthy’s factory in Győr from donations from the faithful of the Reformed Church. The old table dates from 1793. The small granite baptismal font was made in the early 20th century, as were the pulpit and pews. The harmonium was made around 1925. Originally there was an old harmonium from the 19th century. Two bronze bells hang in the tower. The original old bell, dating from the 18th century, was cracked in a fire in 1840.