The Wooden Articular Church of Hronsek is a Lutheran church in Slovakia. Work began on October 23, 1725, and finished in autumn 1726. The article names no architect or builder. It was built under the 1681 Diet of Sopron, whose rules allowed limited Protestant freedoms but required wood construction, sites outside city walls and no bell towers.
The plan is a cross, with arms 75 feet (23 m) and 59 feet (18 m) long and a height of 26 feet (8 m). The interior has a barrel-vaulted ceiling, oak columns with Ionic ornament, spruce beams and 30 windows. It seats about 1,100 people.
It is one of five surviving articular churches out of 38, and part of a UNESCO site inscribed in 2008.
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