Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Upper Tisza region (Regional Units of Open Air Museum. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

ries, all through the Middle Ages, such as Central Europe, including Hungary, rural churches were mostly built of wood, being the work of peasant carpenters and millers adept at carving. There were even a few such wooden churches built in the 17th

—18th centuries. One of these is the church at Mánd (111. 52.). There is a curious lack of harmony in the interior between the white-washed walls and the colurfully painted panels of the ceiling, the choir and the stalls. The polychrome painting is the work of itinary carpenters and cabinetmakers who used to decorate village 53. The choir of the Mánd church, east side 70