Gacsály, Calvinist church

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"The village is located in the region of Erdőhát. The freestanding church with eastern orientation can be found in the center of the village. Rectangular in shape, the nave is connected to a sanctuary terminating in three sides of an octagon. The southern wall of the nave contains three windows with pointed arches. At the western end of the nave is a six-storey tower. The single-space interior has a ceiling of wooden boards to which the surviving panels of a painted wood ceiling made in 1759 have been affixed. A reliquary niche has survived in the northern wall of the sanctuary. The church was built in two periods. The tower and a part of the western wall of the nave date to the first third of the 14th century. In the second construction period the entire building was demolished, and a new, longer and wider church was erected in the early 16th century."