1785 A Lutheran church, once it was allowedEvanjelický kostol, keď sa už smel

Očová's Lutheran congregation built its church in 1785. It could not have built one earlier: for most of the preceding century Protestant worship in this kingdom was restricted or banned outright, and it was Emperor Joseph II's Patent of Toleration of 1781 that made building legal again. Churches put up in the few years after 1781 are recognisable, and Slovakia has a great many of them, because the rules were strict: no tower, no bell and no door onto the main street. A church you were permitted to have, but not permitted to be seen having.Evanjelický zbor v Očovej si postavil kostol v roku 1785. Skôr to nešlo: väčšinu predchádzajúceho storočia bolo protestantské bohoslužobné zhromažďovanie v Uhorsku obmedzené alebo priamo zakázané a stavať sa znova smelo až vďaka tolerančnému patentu Jozefa II. z roku 1781. Kostoly postavené v prvých rokoch po roku 1781 sa dajú spoznať a na Slovensku ich je veľa, lebo pravidlá boli prísne: bez veže, bez zvonov a bez vchodu z hlavnej ulice. Kostol, ktorý ste smeli mať, ale nesmeli ste ho dať vidieť.