The Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary () is a
Romanesque church located in
Prague (District of
Prague 10,
Záběhlice
Záběhlice is a cadastral area of Prague, Czech Republic, lying in both the Prague 10 and Prague 4 administrative districts.
Demographics
There are 3,255 households in Záběhlice comprising 32,034 persons, of whom 17,111 are female, 14,923 are ...
),
Czech Republic. It is protected as a cultural monument.
History
The origins of the church date back to the first half of the 12th century (around 1125). During the 14th century, the church was rebuilt in the Romanesque-
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
style. At that time, it used to be a
parish church. In the 19th century, the original Romanesque tower was destroyed by lightning, and subsequently replaced by a
Neo-Romanesque tower between 1876 and 1880. The altar painting of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
was created in 1861. The church has three bells, the first two are dated 1876 and give a brief history of the church and the third is dated 1889.
Filiální kostel Narození Panny Marie v Záběhlicích býval farním.
Farnost Stětí sv. Jana Křitele v Hostivaři. , retrieved 2 November 2013
Major repairs were also made in 1948, and the façade was repaired in 2000 with financial support from the district of Prague 10.[
The building is registered in the Central list of cultural monuments of the Czech Republic under number 18231/2-1939.
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References
External links
In: Method. Vol. 5, no. 7 (30. 7. 1879), pp. 79–80. - the article was probably written by the publisher and editor of the magazine, Ferdinand J. Lehner.
kostel Narození Panny Marie
Hrady.cz, Mass, Turyna Petr, 5. 2. 2004
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