Galamiai Chapel (Chapel at Frog Lake)

It is said that there were seven chapels in the two villages of Felső and Alsónyék. The oldest of them is the Galamiai Chapel, which can be seen in Felsőyék next to the field road leading to Kelenye. It is also called the Falu selleti- or Kelenyei Chapel. The Toponymy Directory of Frigyes Pesty already mentions that at the beginning of the Felső Kápolna estate there is a 'chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary'. The publication registering Slovak monuments also mentions it, among other things, that it is a rectangular, late 18th century masonry building with a polychrome wooden sculpture inside. In the monograph of the village we read that there was a statue of Our Lady of Sasvár in the chapel, but in 1992 the building was broken into, the statue was turned over, and then taken away together with the copper candlesticks. (Korcsog, 2005:45). According to the local historian of the village, Béla Juhász, this is a Baroque building, which was originally a cemetery chapel. The old Felsőnyék cemetery was spread around it. He believes that the old Pietá statue was a folk stone carving. The whitewashed walls of the east-west oriented sacral building are decorated with a circular window. A larger door can be seen on the grayish-blue facade. In front of the gable roof, the part above the door ends in a Baroque, broken triangular, tympanum-like part, at the apex of which a double iron cross can be seen. The upper wall strips are decorated with a double border. Today, a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stands in the Baroque-Classicist building. The chapel was restored in the 1970s at the initiative of Ilona Danko, with the help of the local cooperative. There are benches in front of the building today, and sometimes women from nearby who pray appear here.