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| Saint Michael's Church -- The south façade of the church as visible from Opatovická street |
Church of St. Michael
(kostel sv. Michala) in Opatovice – V Jirachářích
The Church of St Michael (kostel sv. Michala) originally a
Romanesque structure, is older than the New Town (Nové Mĕsto) itself, which
started to evolve in the place of the fields and meadows, settlements and
villages in 1348.
It was evidently founded at the same time as the Settlement of
Opatovice and a rectory stood here under the reign John of Luxemburg. It
belonged to the Hussites during the Hussite Wars (1419), became the property of
the Lutherans a hundred years later (1524), and then the Catholics after the Battleof White Mountain (1621). It was then bought by the German Lutheran Church in
1790 alter being abandoned.
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| Window of Martin Luther |
The German choir had a picture of Martin Luther
created for the side window of the church in 1915. After the Second World War, the
confiscated church was passed to the Prague choir of the Slovak Evangelic
Church. The Gothic structure of the church dates hack to the last 25 years of
the 14th century.
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| Saint Michael's Prague |
It was expanded and added to on a number of
occasions, with its final re-Gothicisation dating back to 1914 – 1915 under the
leadership of builder Štěpán Koloschek.
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| Cross on the Outside of the Church |
The
old Romanesque church was pulled down sometime before 1369 and subsequently
replaced with a new Gothic structure.
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| Pillar From Original Structure |
An oblong nave was created with a flat
ceiling and a prismatic tower to the west. The irregular presbytery is
distinctive for its remarkable vaulting and is one of the most interesting
religious structures in Prague and beyond. The asymmetric three- naved
structure is externally unified by an orbiting, Baroque, main cornice. The
Baroque extension of a staircase to the gallery sits next to the southern Gothic
nave. The structure comes to a peak with its slender prismatic tower, which has
Gothic core. The portal from the north is fitted with a fanlight, whose tracery
was made up of a number of stylized nuns. The late-Rococo main altar (around
1770) remains the Gothic fittings. This was originally dedicated to St.
Michael.
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| Christ Blessing Elements |
There is also a picture of Christ blessing bread and wine (1870).
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| John the Baptism on the Baptismal Font |
The
baptismal font comes from around the same
time.
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| Pipe Organ |
The organ meanwhile, dates back to the second half the 19th century.
Rev. Tony Booker (http://www.lcms.org/booker) will be installed as pastor of the English service at St. Michael's in Prague.
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| Location of Saint Michael's in Prague. |
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