For the first time, the Jewish community performs in Trnava in written monuments in the 14th century, by means of an inscription on stone tombstones discovered during the dismantling of the Lovčická city gate in 1862, but the presence of Jews in this shopping centre can be assumed earlier. A linguistically and religiously isolated but alive community was formed, with its own administrative and judicial powers, which had its mayor and synagogue in the 16th century, their rights and obligations to the majority population arising from a treaty with the city. In 1539, however, due to some questionable kidnapping and murder of a child, king Ferdinand I ordered Trnava to expel all Jews forever, and this order was repeated in 1686 by emperor Leopold I.The medieval Jewish ghetto somewhere between today's Pavlínská and Dolnopotočná streets disappeared without a trace, but the "eternal times" lasted until 1783, when Joseph II. He granted equal rights to religions by a patent. General restrictions on the number of Jews in towns, their economic activities, property ownership or access to education were lifted, and the Jewish community in Trnava grew so much that in 1855 Rabbi Simon Sidon moved from nearby Cífer. In the years 1891 - 1897 a synagogue of the religious community Status Quo Ante was created according to a project by the Viennese architect Jakub Gertner. Representing a two-tower building near the orthodox synagogue, it represents a typical Jewish sacral architecture combining historicizing and oriental elements. The building, which was used as a warehouse in the second half of the 20th century, was damaged in 1986 by a fire, but it still preserved fragments of the painting and a gallery for women carried by cast-iron columns. Holocaust victims are commemorated by the memorial in front of the entrance, built after World War II. Since 1994, the synagogue has been a part of the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava and serves as the Centre for Contemporary Art. Source: http://www.vitajtevtrnave.sk/sk/register/synagoga-nabozenskej-obce-status-quo-ante Contact information:Present use: Centre for Contemporary Art.Address: Halenárska street no. 2, 917 01 TrnavaTelephone: 033 / 55 11 659E-mail: info@gjk.skWweb: http://www.gjk.sk
The church and cemetery in Modranka are mentioned in written sources from the 16th century. The local parish pilgrimage church dedicated to the Holy Trinity has a turbulent history. It was built in the Baroque style in the years 1650 - 1657. Its construction was linked to the older Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, which was built between 1629 - 1632 and was originally the end of the Calvary leading to Trnava. The church builder was probably inspired by the Church of St. John the Baptist in Trnava. It is reminded especially by the facade, where two prismatic towers beautified with lisenas. Slender onion roofs slender on them. The single-nave church is terminated by a polygonal presbytery and vaulted by a cross vault. In 1659, a chapel with an altar was added on the northern side of the church, and in 1767 it was extended by an extension to its present form. The graceful statue of Our Lady of Loreto is now located above the wooden altar. Pilgrims began to come in larger numbers after the events of 1683, when Trnava and Modranka were threatened by the Turkish army. The helpless inhabitants fled to the Virgin Mary. According to legend, when the region unexpectedly enveloped the thick fog and stopped the invaders, the inhabitants were convinced that the Virgin Mary saved them. Pope Inocent XII proclaimed Modranka as a pilgrimage place in the breve of 30 June 1695 and granted full indulgences for six years to all believers under normal conditions. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Church of Holy Trinity burned down several times. In 1957 - 1958 an extension of the church was built. The present painting of the church dates back to 1968. In front of the church there is a Lourdes cave from 1944. The pilgrimage in Modranka is always organized on the second Sunday of May. Many pilgrims - from vicinity as well as from afar - receive the comfort, strength, grace and encouragement of faith in the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Literature:ČIČO, M. (ed.): Calvary on Slovakia. Bratislava : Institute of Monuments, 2002.List of monuments in Slovakia, Vol. I Bratislava : Obzor, 1969, page 329.www.faramodranka.sk; www.modranka.com Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Pútnická street no. 4, 917 05 Trnava-ModrankaTelephone: 033/5543 052;E-mail: farnost.modranka@abu.sk;Web: www.faramodranka.sk
The largest and most spectacular temple in Trnava is the two-towered Church of St. John the Baptist, the first building in Slovakia built in a new style - Baroque, modelled according to the Jesuit University Church in Vienna. The construction of this monumental temple was not only a prestige for the city, but also became a model for a new concept of sacral architecture throughout the country. In 1629 - 1637, the representative temple of the Jesuit University of Trnava, relatively simple from the outside, but filled with paint and gold, was built by Archbishop Jesuit Peter Pázmany on the site of the demolished Gothic church of the Dominicans. The dominant feature of the interior is the monumental main altar, considered the largest early baroque altar in Central Europe. But the main meaning of the interior is the story of the life of the patron saint of the church, St. John the Baptist, developed from his birth to a martyr's execution in the line of images of the main altar and four oval mirrors in the centre of the vault. A two-storey music tribune was created for a large music ensemble. The main source of funds for the freight construction was provided by a patron, palatine Nikolaus Esterházy of Galántha, and his son Paul later continued his work. However, with the church history, other sons of the palatine, brothers Ladislaus, Francis, Gasper and Thomas are sadly linked, who were killed in the Battle of Vozokany and were buried with great pomp in the local crypt under participation of representatives of the whole kingdom. At present, the church is the Cathedral temple of the Archdiocese of Trnava. Source: http://www.vitajtevtrnave.sk/sk/register/katedrala-sv-jana-krstitela Contact information:Address: Roman Catholic Parish Office, Street of M. Sch. Trnavský no. 3, 917 01 Trnava 1Telephone: 033/5931 081,E-mail: dekanat.trnava@abu.skWweb: https://www.abu.sk/
The religious community was founded in the 13th century and has written registries from 1732. The real estate national cultural monument "Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Jelka", registered in the Central List of Monuments Fund under the number 24/1, is a dominant feature of the village of Jelka, situated on a slight elevation in the cadastral territory Jelka of the Jelka village. A Baroque church with a Romanesque core with preserved Romanesque apse and Neo-Romanesque transept bears historical values: urban value, architectural value, visual value, age and antiquity value, historical document value and value of function. The oldest and historically most valuable part of the building is the Romanesque apse with concha, dated to the 3rd quarter of the 13th century, which was the sanctuary of the original medieval church. Gothic paintings from the first half of the 14th century have been preserved on the inner walls of the apse. In the years 1747-1756 the church underwent an important Baroque reconstruction, a massive single nave was completed vaulted with a six-side rising vault. As part of the modern reconstruction in 1921, a transept with cross vaults was built from the southern and northern sides of the sanctuary. After the Neo-Romanesque reconstruction, the original Baroque look of the nave was preserved from the exterior side. The interior features the original Baroque main altar from the 17th century with significant artistic value. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Contact information:Address: Kostolná village no. 693/14, 925 23 JelkaTelephone: +421 907 176 914E-mail: farajelka@gmail.comWeb: https://rkjelka.sk/sk/
The history of the monastery is connected with the bull of Pope Paul II from 1465, which allowed the construction of the Franciscan Church near the Chapel of All Saints. The first reference of the chapel dates back to 1401. The first inhabitants of the monastery were Franciscans from Bosnia, who fully developed their activities after the monastery was built in 1492. In the troubled times of the Reformation, the monastery (and the church) belonged to the Evangelical Church of A. C. At that time the printing house of Valentín Manckovič worked as one of the first in Slovakia. After the conversion of Adam Thurza, the owner of the Hlohov estate to the Catholic faith, the monastery and the church were returned to Franciscans in 1630. In the years 1663 - 1683 the town and the monastery were ruled by the Turks, but the Franciscans had consent to spiritual activity. The ceremonial consecration of the church was carried out on 18 May 1699 by the Bishop of Nitra, Ladislav Maťašovský. In the 18th century the monastery was the seat of the provincial minister of the Province of the Most Holy Saviour. The monastery has been a philosophical school since 1647, in 1653 promoted to general studies. In the 18th to 19th centuries the monastery was a remarkable centre of culture and education. The monastery library was remarkable as well, which dates back to the first half of the 16th century. Among the manuscripts found here, the most valuable are the Hlohov Glagolitic fragments (2 letters of the Old Slavonic text of Croatia - Dalmatian origin from the 13th to14th centuries). Since 1959, the Homeland Museum of regional importance has been in the monastery building. Here the brothers began to rebuild the religious life since 1990 and help pastoral diocesan clergy. Source: Archbishop Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Contact information:Address: Franciscan square no. 15, 920 01 HlohovecConvent of the monastery: Jeremiáš Daniel KvakaTelephone: 0902 122 445E-mail: hcklastor@gmail.comWeb: https://frantiskanihc.sk/klastor/
Classicist church from 1778. It was modified in 1927. The church is a single-nave building with a straight presbytery closure and a built-in choir, covered with a Prussian vault. The facade is smooth. The slender tower is built into the gable frontage, divided by a lisena's frame and covered with a pyramid. The main altar with the altar cabinet and the hanging painting of the Virgin Mary's Assumption from the first half of the 19th century. The pulpit was classicist from 1778. Arnold Ipolyi, a well-known architect of architectural monuments of the Rye Island, wrote about the Church of Jurová: “Jurová (Bratislava County), originally called György-Soka-, Suka- or Sika, has been known from the documents since 1253. Church records of visits from Baka - since it used to belong to the parish in Baka - state that the church in Jurová was consecrated in 1519 by the governor of Bishop Epiphania and Archbishop Bakács. It is therefore likely that the then church of Jurová was originally built in Gothic style. This older, redeveloped building was joined by a newer nave. A curiosity about the construction of this church is the legend mentioned by Karcsay (magazine Új Magy. Muz. Volume 1852, page 769), which states that it was installed to its current place by angels; this feature is also mentioned in connection with other churches attended mainly by pilgrims. Jurová was one of the patronimic residences of the counts Erdődi Pálffy, Erős and Katona Houses. In 1755 the church was enlarged and a tower was built. The western part of the church was demolished in 1788 and a new one was built instead. The new building was consecrated by Péter Ürményi in 1808. The title of the church is the Virgin Mary's Assumption. Source: Archbishop's Office, Archdiocese of Trnava Literature:Guntherová, Alžbeta et al: List of monuments in Slovakia I. Bratislava: Obzor, 1967www.jurova.sk (12.10.2015) Contact information:Address: Roman Cathilic church, parish of Jurová, Jurová village no. 1, 930 09 Trstená na OstroveTelephone: 031/5597 495E-mail: farnost.jurova@abu.sk