Rudno

A Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen the King is the only remaining wooden church in the region of Turiec. It was built on the location of an older Gothic church in the years 1790-1792. In 1974 it was moved to the Museum of the Slovak Village in Martin to be preserved.
This log structure with only the central nave, whose ground plan is rectangular, has a polygonal closure and narthex. A Baroque altar from 1707 dominates the interior of the church. The central triad of Late Gothic sculptures - Madonna with a child, St. Stephen the Kind, and St. Nicolas - all come from the end of the 15th century from the older church, and form the most prominent part of the church's interior. The sides of the altar feature large Baroque sculptures of St. Peter and St. Paul from the latter half of the 18th century. The patrons' bench in the apse was reserved for members of the aristocracy. The pulpit from the 17th century is decorated with sculptures of the Evangelists. The inner lining of the church's walls is covered with a painting with traits of illusory architecture, filled with marbling. Its author is Liborius Lazar from Nitrianske Pravno (1792).
 

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