title: Votive church
text: # Votive church
  
  A votive church (votive from the Latin votum 'vowed sacrifice, vows') is a church that was built as a sign of thanksgiving for salvation from an emergency or with a request for the fulfillment of a specific desire, and sometimes atonement. Often, the builder has previously made a vow to have the church built in the case of the prayer heard (takeover of the construction costs). Votive churches also include so-called thanksgiving churches:
  
  * Votive Chapel, Nattenhausen
  * Votive Church, Passau
  * Votive Church, Szeged
  * Votivkirche, Vienna
  * Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris
  * Chapelle expiatoire
  * Santa Maria della Salute
  * Sagrada Família
  * Estrela Basilica
  