Na vašem soukromí nám záleží

My, Městská část Praha 3, IČO 00063517, používáme soubory cookies k zajištění funkčnosti webu a s Vaším souhlasem i mj. pro zlepšení kvality našich webových stránek a jejich obsahu. Kliknutím na tlačítko „Povolit vše“ souhlasíte s využívaním cookies a předáním údajů o chování na webu.

Nastavení
Zpracování osobních údajů
Přeskočit na hlavní obsah
Logo Prahy 3

Church

Points of Interest

  • Around 1900, Vinohrady had 50,000 residents, most of them Catholics, and services at the Vinohrady parishes of St. Ludmila and St. Alois were packed to capacity. For this reason, the city council donated land for the construction of a new church as early as 1908.

  • Jože Plečnik, a prominent architect on the Prague City Council and a native of Slovenia, initially declined to work on the church. His students won the design competition and eventually persuaded Plečnik to become engaged in the project. He created the designs free of charge as a gift to the church; its shape was inspired by Noah’s Ark.

  • The Karlín-based construction firm Nekvasil took on the project. Only about one-third of the original budget could eventually be allocated to the undertaking, which spelled the end of a grand vision that had called for the square to also house another school or a triumphal arch.

  • During World War II, six bells were melted down to make weapons; only one, the smallest, remained in the church. The air raid on Prague in February 1945 claimed dozens of lives in Vinohrady, but the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus survived unscathed and its basement served the public as an air-raid shelter.

Gallery

The ceremonial consecration of the new white marble altar on November 24, 2018
The ceremonial consecration of the new white marble altar on November 24, 2018
(photo: Petr Neubert)
A three-meter-tall gilded figure of Christ is suspended above the altar within a symbolic heart; next to it are statues of six Czech patron saints carved from linden wood, the work of Damián Pešan.
A three-meter-tall gilded figure of Christ is suspended above the altar within a symbolic heart; next to it are statues of six Czech patron saints carved from linden wood, the work of Damián Pešan.
(archive of Radniční noviny, Prague 3 Municipal Ward)
In 2018, sculptor Petr Váňa created a new altar from a single block of white Carrara marble, based on a design by architects Josef Pleskot and Norbert Schmidt.
In 2018, sculptor Petr Váňa created a new altar from a single block of white Carrara marble, based on a design by architects Josef Pleskot and Norbert Schmidt.
(archive of Radniční noviny, Prague 3 Municipal Ward)
To build the crypt, Plečnik used masonry removed during renovations of the Prague Castle complex while working for President T. G. Masaryk.
To build the crypt, Plečnik used masonry removed during renovations of the Prague Castle complex while working for President T. G. Masaryk.
(archive of the Prague 3 Municipal Ward)
Jože Plečnik and his dog Sivko in 1933.
Jože Plečnik and his dog Sivko in 1933.
(Wikipedia Commons)
Construction of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Jiřího z Poděbrad Square in Prague-Vinohrady at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s.
Construction of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Jiřího z Poděbrad Square in Prague-Vinohrady at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s.
(Prague 3 Municipal Ward archive)

Links

Infocentrum Praha 3 The Toyen Gallery The Farmers´ Market