The Red Church (
Czech
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: ''Červený kostel'') is a
Protestant
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Church in
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
,
Czech Republic
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. It was designed by architect
Heinrich von Ferstel
Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel (7 July 1828 14 July 1883) was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.
Life
The son of Ignaz Ferstel (17961866), a bank clerk and later director of the ...
and built up between 1863 and 1867. Nowadays it is used by the
Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) ( cs, Českobratrská církev evangelická; ČCE) is the largest Czech Protestant church and the second-largest church in the Czech Republic after the Catholic Church. It was formed in 1918 in C ...
. The building is a cultural monument.
Churches in Brno
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