Of the Baroque furnishings with elements of Classicism, only the main altar and pulpit from the end of the 18th century have been preserved. Behind the canteen with a tabernacle is a columnar altar architecture in the middle with the image of the Sacrifice of Isaac, in the volute shield there are rays and two rococo vases. On the sides of the altar on separate pedestals are two statues of saints. The pulpit has a relief on the windowsill and at the top of the canopy a statue of St. Archangel Michael.
The first church in Abraham was built sometime between 1240 and 1245 by the son of the Count of Pezinok and St. George, Abraham I, who inherited the settlement, now Abraham. This church was also consecrated to Patriarch Abraham. It is not known where this church stood, but it was definitely wooden. On the site of the current church, a wooden church on a stone foundation was also built in 1561. Around the church, as was the custom in the Middle Ages, was a cemetery where it was buried until 1780. At the time of the Reformation, when the village was owned by the Thurz family as part of the Šintava estate, both churches - Catholic and Protestant - served in the church. Even before the arrival of the Tatars, Abraham is mentioned as a rectory in the records of the episcopal visitation. The record is in the University Archive in Bratislava. There is also evidence that in September 1296 the Tatars destroyed the Cistercian monastery in Abraham and murdered the monks. In 1782, on the site of a wooden church, Karol Esterházy had today's church built in the late Baroque style, without side naves, which were added later.
From the stone foundation of the original church, there was a municipal prison on the site of the current rectory, which later served as a fire station, until the construction of the new rectory. In previous centuries, Abraham belonged to the parish of Majcichov and to the notarial district of Majcichov. The Abraham registry office was also kept at the Majcichov parish. Until 1907, the administrators of the rectory from Majcichov went to celebrate Mass and administer the sacraments. Among others, the priest - writer Ján Palárik. The parish office in Abraham dates back to May 10, 1907, when the request for the establishment of a parish in Abraham was approved and confirmed by the Archbishopric of Esztergom. The original document is kept at the parish in Abraham.
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