Articular Church
Articular churches are wooden churches for Evangelical congregations erected under the terms of the Congress of Sopron of 1681. At this congress, summoned by the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I, permission was for the first time granted for followers of the Augsburg and Calvinist confessions to erect and maintain churches within the Emperor's dominions. As this permission was contained in Articles (i.e. clauses) 35 and 36 of the Congress's deliberations, the term 'articular' was applied to them.
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