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St James's Church in Levo\u010da (L\u0151cse) is the largest medieval church in the Spi\u0161 region, and its high altar by Master Paul of Levo\u010da is the tallest Gothic winged altar carved in wood in the world. It has been part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009 and a minor basilica since 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The parish church, dedicated to St James the Greater, was begun on the site of a 13th-century church during the reign of King Charles I (Charles Robert). The three-aisled Gothic pseudo-basilica without a transept is 49.5 metres long and 20.4 metres wide. After King Matthias Corvinus visited Levo\u010da in 1474, the church received rich late Gothic furnishings, and the chapel above the south porch, known as King Matthias's Oratory, was completed by 1494.<\/p>\n

From 1544 to 1674 the church was used by the Lutherans; the pulpit and the organ date from this period. G\u00e1bor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, spent Christmas 1626 in Levo\u010da, and a service in Hungarian was held in the church. It returned permanently to the Catholics in 1710. Members of the Thurz\u00f3 family rest in the Thurz\u00f3 Chapel, where the only child of Imre Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly and Ilona Zr\u00ednyi was also buried. The present neo-Gothic tower, about 70 metres high, was built between 1852 and 1858.<\/p>\n

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The 18.62-metre high altar was carved in limewood by the workshop of Master Paul of Levo\u010da and completed by 1517. Its central shrine holds larger-than-life statues of St James, the Madonna and St John the Evangelist; the reliefs on the open wings show scenes from the lives of the apostles, while the panels of the closed wings depict the Passion of Christ. The church also contains further Gothic winged altars \u2013 including Master Paul's Altar of the Four St Johns and his St Anne Altar \u2013 as well as medieval wall paintings of the Seven Works of Mercy and the Seven Deadly Sins.<\/p>\n

Visiting:<\/strong> the church stands in the middle of Levo\u010da's old town, on Master Paul Square (N\u00e1mestie Majstra Pavla), next to the Renaissance Old Town Hall. Since 2019 the tower has also been open to visitors, with a view over the town centre. On Mari\u00e1nska hora above the town stands Levo\u010da's other great church, the pilgrimage Basilica of the Visitation.<\/p>\n

Sources: Wikipedia<\/a> \u00b7 Repository of Hungarian Values in Slovakia<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Ingo Mehling \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a> \u00b7 Photo: Gerda Arendt \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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