The kopanice were Lutheran, in a kingdom where Protestants had been allowed no proper churches for a century and a half. That changed with the Toleration Patent of Emperor Joseph II in 1781, which let them build again — without a tower and without a door onto the street, but build. The first written mention of Košariská comes five years after it, in 1786. The oldest object in the present church, a font from the end of the eighteenth century, is older than the building it stands in, which is the trace of that first tolerance-era chapel; in a settlement with no square, the church, the school and the parsonage did the work a town centre does elsewhere.Kopanice boli evanjelické, a to v kráľovstve, kde protestanti poldruha storočia nesmeli mať poriadne kostoly. Zmenil to tolerančný patent cisára Jozefa II. z roku 1781, ktorý im opäť dovolil stavať — bez veže a bez vchodu z ulice, ale stavať. Prvá písomná zmienka o Košariskách je z roku 1786, päť rokov po ňom. Najstarší predmet v dnešnom kostole, krstiteľnica z konca osemnásteho storočia, je starší než stavba, v ktorej stojí — a je stopou po tom prvom tolerančnom chráme. V sídle bez námestia robili kostol, škola a fara to, čo inde mestské centrum.
