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Nové Zámky Nové Zámky (; ) is a town in Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of southwestern Slovakia. Geography The town is located on the Danubian Lowland, on the Nitra River, at an altitude of 119 metres. It is located around 100 km fr ...

() dominates the main square of the town, which is in south-west

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. A church at the site was built originally in 1584–1585. This was a simple late- Gothic building, and was later rebuilt several times. The building with all its facilities was totally destroyed by a fire. Only the

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remained, and an "eternal light" from the presbytery was saved. Until 1867, the church was decorated in a typical building in the late-

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classic style. The most recent major reconstruction work was undertaken in 1877, giving the church a neoclassic character. The round shape of the windows probably dates from this era.

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Roman Catholic churches completed in 1877 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Slovakia Churches in Nitra Region 1877 establishments in Austria-Hungary {{Slovakia-RC-church-stub