The Church of Saint Nicholaus in

Senec, Slovakia Senec (, ) is a town in the Bratislava Region of south-western Slovakia. The town is the administrative seat of the Senec District and its largest municipality. In 2022 it had a population of over 20,000. The town is a summer tourism and recreati ...

, is located in the southwestern part of the town, which is the oldest historical building of it. The church attained its current look in the middle of the 18th century. Before that the church had been rebuilt several times. Its basic style is

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. There is some evidence that a wooden church stood in its place in 1308. The structure has been reconstructed several times since. In 1633 it was in the

Renaissance style Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and ...

, in 1740 the

Baroque style The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (i ...

. The last renovations were made in the 19th and 20th century. There are four altars in the church constructed in the

rococo Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...

style.

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3D model of the church
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