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sandycrane wrote:
Thanks. I'm a big fan of old churches. Unfortunately I've never spent any time in Poland, Romania, or Bulgaria with their unique styles.
Lacking any faith, personally, I have what my wife considers a somewhat perverse fascination with religious architecture and art. 
I find the ceiling of the church in your photos particularly interesting. The panels look like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that was incorrectly assembled. Also, although there a lot of references to this church as Gothic, the only gothic feature I recognize is the vaulting in the apse. Does the tower lie above the apse or at the other end?
Anyways, I always look forward to seeing the photos you share here....Show more →
Thank you for your kind words. I like old churches mainly because they are the product of good old European culture that shaped me. Moreover, in many of these little churches time has stopped and when you cross their door sill, you can feel with a little imagination as in the Middle Ages.One can touch,hear and see those passed away people almost.
The nave of the church, which is its oldest part, is in fact Romanesque, as can be seen from the Romanesque arches on the windows and the small, simple Romanesque portal on the south side. The gothicization of the church took place several dozen years after the nave was erected, when a gothic presbitery was added, in the form of an apse, with a typical gothic ceiling ribbing and gothic-style windows. A quadrangular, also gothic tower rises above the west side of the nave.
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