Minor Church architecture

This work is focused on the small church buildings, which in the countryside and in the villages to create a unique phenomenon of cultural landscapes. In the theoretical part, the reader is introduced to the problems of small religious buildings, their typology, historical context, meaning and their status today. Furthermore, the work done its readers a legal framework for the protection of monuments, economics maintenance and its potential financing. In the practical part will be mapped and documented thirty small church buildings in Veliš parish, located south to southwest of Jicin in the Hradec Králové region. Small buildings will be divided into different categories, according to various criteria. There will be an assessment of what impact these criteria have on the condition of surveyed real estate. It will also be assessed a major objective, whether the owners fulfill legal responsibilities for the maintenance of these buildings. Finally, work will be recommendations to the recovery of one of the small sacred buildings