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The Churches of Peace (Polish: Ko¶ció³ Pokoju, German: Friedenskirche) in Jawor (Jauer) and ¦widnica (Schweidnitz) in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which permitted the Lutherans in the Roman Catholic parts of Silesia to build three Evangelical churches from wood, loam and straw outside the city walls, without steeples and church bells. The construction time was limited to one year. Since 2001, the two remaining churches are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Despite the physical and political constrains, three of the churches became the biggest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe due to pioneering constructional and architectural solutions.

The church in Jawor (Jauer), under the invocation of the Holy Ghost is 43.5-metre (143 ft) long, 14-metre (46 ft) wide and 15.7-metre (52 ft) high and has capacity of 5,500. It was constructed by Breslau (Wroclaw) architect Albrecht von Saebisch (1610–1688) and was finished a year later in 1655. The 200 paintings inside by were done by Georg Flegel in 1671–1681. The Altar, by Martin Schneider, dates to 1672, the original organ of J. Hoferichter from Legnica (Liegnitz) of 1664 was replaced in 1855–1856 by Adolf Alexander Lummert.

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