The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a Greek-Catholic temple from the mid-19th century. The foundation stone of the building was laid on May 13, 1859. It is a single-nave church with neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance elements.
St. Elizabeth, also called “Blue Church” is an Art Nouveau church built between 1909 and 1913. Both the interior and exterior of the church are painted in pale blue and decorated with blue maiolica; the roof is covered with blue-glazed ceramics as well.
The Orthodox Synagogue in Bratislava was built between 1923 and 1926 by architect Artur Szalantai-Slatinský. This Art Deco brick building still serves as a synagogue.
The complex of the Merciful Brothers, which comprise a church, monastery and hospital, dates from the end of the 17th century, and was modelled on a Viennese monastery. Built by the Order of Merciful Brothers that settled in the current territory of Slovakia in the 15th century, the hospital was of particular importance during the numerous periods of war and epidemics in this region.
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