Fara () is a settlement on the left bank of the

Kolpa River The Kupa () or Kolpa ( or ; from in Roman times; ) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia. It is long, with a length of serving as the border between Croatia and Slovenia ...

in the

Municipality of Kostel The Municipality of Kostel (; ) is a municipality in southern Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Vas. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. It borders Croati ...

in southern

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. The municipal administration is based in the settlement. The area is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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. The local

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is dedicated to the

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and belongs to the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto The Diocese of Novo Mesto (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the city of Novo Mesto in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana, Ljubljana in Slovenia. History * April 7, 2006: Established as ...

. It is a large building with a triple

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that was built between 1858 and 1864 in the Neo-Romanesque style on the site of an earlier church. A second church in the village is dedicated to

Saint Stephen Stephen (; ) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity."St ...

and is a late 16th- or early 17th-century building that was refurbished in the 18th and 19th centuries.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 1807

References

External links

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Fara on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kostel {{Kostel-geo-stub