Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity ( sl, Uršulinska cerkev svete Trojice), officially Holy Trinity Parish Church in Ljubljana (), also Nun Church (), is a

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, the capital of

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. It is located at Slovene Street (), along the western border of

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. It was built between 1718 and 1726 in the

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History

The church was designed by Carlo Martinuzzi, a

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an architect, and is noted for its extensive

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made of African marble designed by

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, who also built the Fountain of the Three Rivers of Carniola which stands on

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in Ljubljana. The original bell tower was destroyed in the

Ljubljana earthquake An earthquake struck Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Carniola, a crown land of Austria-Hungary and the capital of modern-day Slovenia, on Easter Sunday, 14 April 1895. It was the most, and the last, destructive earthquake in the ar ...

of 1895. The current one was built in the 1900s. The staircase in front of the entrance has been partially designed by the architect

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in 1930.

Holy Trinity Column

In front of the Ursuline Church stands the Holy Trinity Column. The originally wooden column stood since 1693 in front of a Discalced Augustinian monastery at

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. In 1722, it was replaced with a stone one, made by Luka Mislej, whereas the marble statues have been presumably created by Francesco Robba. In 1834, the stonemason Ignacij Toman made a new pedestal and the original Robba's sculpture was replaced with a replica. The original is now kept by the

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. The column was again renovated after the

1895 Ljubljana earthquake An earthquake struck Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Carniola, a crown land of Austria-Hungary and the capital of modern-day Slovenia, on Easter Sunday, 14 April 1895. It was the most, and the last, destructive earthquake in the area ...

by the stonemason Feliks Toman. It was relocated in front of the Ursuline Church in 1927 upon plans by Plečnik as part of his redesign of Congress Square. Now it forms an axis with the Ursuline Church, the lights at the square and the building of the Slovenian Philharmonics.

Depictions

After in 1991 Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia, the Ursuline Church was portrayed on the Slovene 10

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banknote. It was in circulation from October 1991 until the introduction of the

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in January 2007.

Gallery

File:Ljubljana Ursuline Church interior.JPG, Interior File:Ljubljana Ursuline Church Altar.JPG, Altar File:Ljubljana Ursuline Church. Pulpit.JPG, Pulpit

References

External links

Ursuline Church
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