Church in Rákoš

In the village of Rákoš, there is an inconspicuous church hiding rare paintings not only in the interior, but partly also on the exterior walls. It was built on an elevated site in the northern part of the village, at the foot of the Železník hill, where the old castle of the Bebek family, now defunct, stood.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity is a single-nave late Romanesque building with a semicircular apse, without a tower, from the middle of the 13th century. The interior is illuminated by five tall and narrow Romanesque windows. But the entrance portal already has a Gothic arch. As a rare example of Romanesque architecture in Gemer, the church has been preserved in an almost unchanged form.

At the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, its interior was supplemented with fresco painting. In the apse, Christ in a mandorla, church fathers and symbols of the evangelists are depicted. In the church we can find up to three mandorlas, while the author (rather unusual in Slovakia) also placed the Madonna in one of them. The painting of the Holy Trinity discovered in 1993 in the form of a seated God with three faces and four eyes deserves special attention. A similar one can only be found in the church in Ochtiná.

An interesting feature on the southern portal are visible small holes, known as magic wells - traces of obtaining "dust from the church" for white magic. According to rumors, a secret underground passage connects the church with the nearby defunct medieval castle. There is a small bell tower from the 18th century near the church.