1681 · 1688 – 1689 A church you are allowed to build — but only justKostol, ktorý smiete postaviť — ale len tak-tak

At the Diet of Sopron in 1681 the emperor Leopold I allowed Protestants in royal Hungary to build churches again, in articles 25 and 26 of its acts — which is where the word articular comes from. The conditions were designed to keep the concession as small as possible: at most two churches in a county, outside the walls of the towns, built of wood, without a tower and without bells, and finished within a year. Orava's Lutherans built theirs at Leštiny in 1688–89. From the lane it looks like a large barn standing in a graveyard; inside, two tiers of painted timber galleries run round the walls so that a building forbidden height could still seat a whole parish. Hviezdoslav was baptised in it, and it has been on the UNESCO list since 2008. It is a law you can walk into.Na sneme v Šoproni roku 1681 dovolil cisár Leopold I. evanjelikom v kráľovskom Uhorsku znova stavať kostoly — v článkoch 25 a 26 jeho uznesení, odkiaľ pochádza slovo artikulárny. Podmienky boli nastavené tak, aby ústupok zostal čo najmenší: najviac dva kostoly v stolici, mimo mestských hradieb, z dreva, bez veže a bez zvonov, a postavené do roka. Oravskí evanjelici si svoj postavili v Leštinách v rokoch 1688 – 1689. Od cesty vyzerá ako veľká stodola stojaca na cintoríne; vnútri obiehajú steny dva rady maľovaných drevených empor, aby sa do stavby, ktorej zakázali výšku, zmestila celá farnosť. Bol v ňom pokrstený Hviezdoslav a od roku 2008 je na zozname UNESCO. Je to zákon, do ktorého sa dá vojsť.