Velká Lhota is exceptional by two evangelic churches facing each other, with chalices on their towers. Since 1918 both belong to the Czech Brethren Evangelic Church, which was originated from the connection of the Lutheran and Reformed churches. The Czech Evangelics were illegal in Bohemia until 1781, when Emperor Joseph II issued the “Letter of Tolerance”, a religious reform law, which permitted other churches than the Catholic one. Out of the protestant churches it permitted the Lutherans and the Reformed. The new law was not presented in public and that was the reason why the Evangelics were automatically registered as the Lutherans and therefore the Lutheran church was permitted as the first one. Only in 1787 they learnt of the fact that they could be registered as the reformed church and by that time majority of them converted to this church. The rest of them were afraid of new negotiations with an uncertain result and better stayed members of the already existing Lutheran church. For more than 130 years two protestant churches have been in one village. Recently the Memorial of the Czech Reformation in the 17th and the 18th century has been accessible to the public here.
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Velká Lhota is exceptional by two evangelic churches facing each other, with chalices on their towers. Since 1918 both belong to the Czech Brethren Evangelic Church, which was originated from the connection of the Lutheran and Reformed churches. The Czech Evangelics were illegal in Bohemia until 1781, when Emperor Joseph II issued the “Letter of Tolerance”, a religious reform law, which permitted other churches than the Catholic one. Out of the protestant churches it permitted the Lutherans and the Reformed. The new law was not presented in public and that was the reason why the Evangelics were automatically registered as the Lutherans and therefore the Lutheran church was permitted as the first one. Only in 1787 they learnt of the fact that they could be registered as the reformed church and by that time majority of them converted to this church. The rest of them were afraid of new negotiations with an uncertain result and better stayed members of the already existing Lutheran church. For more than 130 years two protestant churches have been in one village. Recently the Memorial of the Czech Reformation in the 17th and the 18th century has been accessible to the public here.
