Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica
The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Ś widnica, the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, were built in the former Silesia in the mid-17th century, amid the religious strife that followed the Peace of Westphalia. Constrained by the physical and political conditions, the Churches of Peace bear testimony to the quest for religious freedom and are a rare expression of Lutheran ideology in an idiom generally associated with the Catholic Church.
Jawor and Świdnica counties, Lower Silesian (Dolnoslaskie) Voivodship
N51 3 15.4 E16 11 45.4
Date of Inscription: 2001
Criteria: (iii)(iv)(vi)
Property : 0.23 ha
Buffer zone: 12 ha
Ref: 1054Source: http://whc.unesco.org
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