History of the parish in Machlinec and its church
. The history of the village of Machliniec dates back to the beginning of the third decade of the 10th century, when it was founded for settlers brought from Bohemia. The establishment of the parish was associated with pressure from German settlers.

Initially, only a small wooden chapel was built in the village, the design of which was approved in 1938. It was to be built by a certain W. Klafs and consecrated in 1842. 16 years later, efforts to build a brick parish church began. The foundation stone was laid in 1860 and the church was consecrated in 1868.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1939, the German settlers living in Machliniec left the village. From 1942, the building was used as an Orthodox church for almost 20 years. Closed since 1960, the church deteriorated until its major renovation in 1995, which significantly changed its architecture, bringing its character closer to that of an Orthodox church.

Architecture
The Holy Trinity Church in Machlinec is a brick and plastered building. It consists of a three-bay nave and a slightly lower, single-span chancel, to which two rectangular annexes have been added, housing the sacristy and the treasury. The interior of the church is devoid of articulation. We also find a wooden choir supported by two pillars.

Originally, all rooms were covered with ceilings, but during a major renovation in 1995, the nave received a pseudo-vaulted polygonal ceiling. The roofs of the nave and chancel are gabled, while the roofs over the annexes are multi-pitched.

The temple has a three-bay façade topped by a triangular pediment. On its axis is the entrance to the church and a semicircular window.

Equipment
The furnishings of the church in Machlinec were dispersed and destroyed after the church was abandoned in the second half of the 20th century. An inventory from 1938 shows that the church in Machliniec still had three altars in the inter-war period, of which the main altar had two oil paintings on canvas (depicting St John of Nepomuk and St Trinity), while the side altars on either side of the rainbow arch had one painting each, also made in oil on canvas (the paintings depicted the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus).

The church also contained other furnishings, such as a pulpit with representations of the Evangelists, an organ, gilded vessels and liturgical vestments. Mention has also been made of paintings and sculptures in the church, depicting figures of the Virgin Mary, Christ and saints and angels.

In the 1890s, the church was decorated with paintings of the ceiling, but these have not survived to the present day. In the presbytery, an anonymous artist painted the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, while the nave was decorated with a cross against a starry sky.