Rajecká Lesná (known as Frewald before 1948)—the village located 5 km southeast of Rajec in the valley of Mala Fatra Mountains—is a place, where the Slovak Nativity Scene, a large group of plastic arts, masterpiece of Jozef Pekara, carver from Rajecké Teplice, is situated. Next to the parish church of Mary's birth in the centre of this well known pilgrimage place a House of Nativity was built. The Slovak Nativity Scene was open to the public in this specially build house. Nitra's H. E. Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec celebrated the Holy Mass and blessed the Nativity Scene on November 26, 1995. Jozef Pekara worked on this piece of art for 15 years and supposed to work another 5 years to finish the project in planned dimensions 8,5x3x2 meters. Around the central motif of Nativity Scene's manger is arranged the whole Slovakia, pictured in its characteristic dominants, architectonic monuments, and its working inhabitants.