page_title: Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
section_title: History of the church
hierarchical_section_title: Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross / History of the church
caption_attribution_description: English: Basilica of the Holly Cross in Kezmarok
context_page_description: The Basilica minor of the Exaltation of the Holly Cross is a Late Gothic three-nave Catholic church located in the town Kežmarok in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia.
context_section_description: The original parish church was constructed on the place of a previous, probably Romanesque chapel. Fast development of the city connected with the rapid growth of the population required also for a new church, the rebuilding began sometime in the first half of the 14th century (about 1320). According to the modern research this church was 19m wide and about 41m long the tower on west side and the east end of the sacristy gives us an idea about the size of the temple after its first reconstruction. This temple was comparable with the largest churches in the Upper Hungary. On 25 April 433 Hussites attacked the city. The following fire and an earthquake in 1443 heavily damaged the church.
caption: The tower of the temple
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