Prihova, Oplotnica
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Prihova () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Oplotnica The Municipality of Oplotnica (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Oplotnica. It was formed in 1998, when it was split from the Municipality ...
in northeastern
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
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. The municipality is now included in the
Drava Statistical Region The Drava Statistical Region () is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course through Slovenia as well as the Pohorj ...
.


Church

The
parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the Church (building), church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in com ...
in the settlement is dedicated to the Mary, Virgin of Mercy and belongs to the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor The Archdiocese of Maribor (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Slovenia. Its episcopal see is Maribor. History * 1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant * ...
. It is a
pilgrimage church A pilgrimage church () is a church to which Christian pilgrimage, pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves o ...
dating to the middle of the 16th century, with the bell tower built in the second half of the 16th century. In the 1740s it was renovated in the Baroque style.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3286


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Prihova on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Oplotnica {{Oplotnica-geo-stub