Nitrianska Blatnica (Hungarian: Nyitrasárfő) is a municipality with 1,192 inhabitants in the Topoľčany District of the Nitra Region, Slovakia.

The church lies on the slope of the hill Mahrát in the locality "Jurko".

The site is on the important route between Váh and Nitra river basins.

According to the written sources, the church was built in 1530 by Anna Thurso in memory of her husband who died in Battle of Mohács.

[4] However, an archaeological research uncovered new findings and changed the dating to the Early Medieval period, with the highest probability the Great Moravian period or shortly after.