The wooden joint church of Kežmarok is a 17th century Protestant church. The bricks, prohibited in the original construction, were added to the building during the last repair in the 1990s. As part of the wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians, the building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Cathedral of the Memory of the Seven Sorrows of Mary is a functionalist church that was built between 1939 and 1942. The architects of the church were Gabriel Schreiber and František Florians. At the time of its consecration on 8 September 1942, the interior fittings and the tower were still missing.
In 1668, Father Reggiani acquired the Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Spissku Stvrtok for his order and the house in the village, which belonged to the robe, for the brothers' residence. According to a document written in the Spis Chapter on March 10, 1668, the nobles donated two plots of land to the monks: one between the cemetery of the church in Spissku Stvrtek and the house of his subject Vavrinec Filek, suitable for building a monastery, the other farmland together with Juraj Sofranek , watercourses, etc.
This is a fenced and well-maintained Jewish cemetery. Most of the matzohs were destroyed or dumped. One of the graves has been excavated. The site is not far from a Roma settlement. Given the oldest preserved tombstone dates to 1904, it can be assumed the cemetery was already in use by the early 20th century.
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