Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius ( cs, Kostel svatého Cyrila a Metoděje) is a
Roman Catholic church in the
Karlín district of
Prague,
Czech Republic. It belongs to the largest religious buildings in the Czech Republic. It was constructed in the mid-19th century and it remains one of the most important architectural landmarks from the period of historicism in the country.
The church was built in 1854–1863 to plans by architects
Carl Roesner and
Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann
Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann (23 April 1822 in Prague – 17 September 1897 in Příbram) was a Czech architect working in Revivalism architecture, particularly Renaissance Revival architecture.
Life
Ullmann studied architecture at the Academy of Fin ...
. Several Czech and Austrian artists contributed to the decoration of the church, led by
František Sequens
František Seraf Sequens, or Franz Sequens, (21 November 1836, Plzeň, Pilsen - 14 June 1896, Prague) was a Czech church and history painter.
Biography
After completing his primary education at the Realschule in Prague, he became a student at ...
and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. The Church was consecrated on 18 October 1863, on the millennium anniversary of the arrival of
Saints Cyril and Methodius to the Bohemian lands.
The church has been constructed in the late Neo-Romanesque style as a basilica with highly elevated main nave and two towers. The ground plan contents an entrance hall, three naves and a
presbytery with a semicircular
apse between two chapels under the towers. The last decoration of baptismal chapel was finished in 1905 in an art nouveau style.
References
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* Karlín. Chrám sv. Cyrila a Metoděje v Praze-Karlíně. Photos by
Martin Frouz Martin may refer to:
Places
* Martin City (disambiguation)
* Martin County (disambiguation)
* Martin Township (disambiguation)
Antarctica
* Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land
* Port Martin, Adelie Land
* Point Martin, South Orkney Islands
Austral ...
. Kostelní Vydří: Karmelitánské nakladatelství, 2007. 216 s. . (the book was awarded the prize for the best Czech book illustrations of the year).
External links
Official website of the parish
Churches in Prague 8
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Czech Republic
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1863
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