Churches of Brno

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The majority of church buildings in Brno belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, other mainly to Protestant Churches. In addition to them, there are also a synagogue and a mosque. To describe the more remarkable ones, we can divide Brno into three areas: city centre (inside the former walls), former suburbs (joined the city in 1850s and after World War I) and joined villages and large housing estates (joined partly after World War I, partly since 1940s, and built from 1960s to 1990s).

1 City Centre
2 Former Suburbs
3 Joined villages and large housing estates
- 3.1 Photogallery
4 References

[edit] City Centre

[edit] Catholic

St. Peter and Paul Cathedral

– on the Petrov Hill; a Gothic church rebuilt in the Baroque style during the 18th century, later partially reconstructed in the Neo-Gothic style, two characteristic towers (81 m high) since 1905; cathedral since 1777

St. Michael Church

– in the Dominican Square (Dominikánské náměstí); a Baroque church from the 17th century, until 1780s church of the Dominican Order, then 1905-1950 used by the Redemptorists; a part of former monastery buildings serves as the New City Hall (Nová radnice) of Brno

Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross

– church of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Baroque building from the 17th century; the Crypt under the church is based on a unique air circulation system providing natural mummification of buried bodies

St. Mary Magdalene Church

– a Baroque church from 1650s, built for the Franciscans on the spot of an older one that originated from a synagogue cancelled after expulsion of Jews in the 15th century; the Franciscans resided here until 1780s; later the church (and adjacent monastery) belonged to the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (1912-1950) and since 1991 it has been administered by the Congregatio Fratrum Sanctissimi Sacramenti

St. Joseph Church

– former Ursuline church, nowadays closed

St. Johns' Church with the Loreto Chapel

– Church of St. John the Baptist and John the Apostle, since the Middle Ages a part of the Minorite monastery; originally Gothic church reconstructed in the Baroque style during 1720s-1730s; in that time the Loreto Chapel with Holy Stairs was built next to the church

Church of the Assumption

– a Baroque church of the Jesuits, the only remain of a Jesuit College from the 16th/17th centuries, interior partly from the 18th century

St. James Church

– originally the parish church of Non-Slavonic inhabitants of Brno, built from 14th to 16th centuries predominantly in the Gothic style; the spire (from 1592) is 92 m high (the 7th highest building in the Czech Republic and the 1st in Brno)

St. Thomas Church

– a Baroque church with a monumental facade from 1665-1675 on the spot of the Gothic one damaged in the Thirty Years' War; since 1350 a part of an Augustinian monastery, planned as a burial place of Moravian rulers (Margrave Jobst is buried there); in 1780s the Augustinians moved to Staré Brno

[edit] Protestant and Orthodox

Bethlehem Church

– built in the 19th century for Czech-speaking Protestants

Comenius Church

– built in 1860s in Neo-Gothic style for especially German-speaking Protestants (till the expulsion of Germans after World War II)

St. Wenceslas (Orthodox) Church

– built in 1930-1931 at the foot of Špilberk Hill

[edit] Photogallery

St. Peter and Paul Cathedral	St. Peter and Paul Cathedral - interior	St. Michael Church	Capuchin Church
St. Joseph Church	Jesuit Church	St. James Church	St. Thomas Church
Bethlehem Church	Comenius Church	St. Wenceslas Orthodox Church

[edit] Former Suburbs

[edit] Catholic

Staré Brno (Augustinian Abbey)

– originally a Cistercian Convent, since 1780s a monastery of Augustinians transferred from St. Thomas Church in the city centre, famous especially for Gregor Mendel, the abbot in 1868-1884

St. Leopold Church

– a Baroque church of the Brothers Hospitallers with a hospital in the Vienna (Vídeňská) Street

St. Augustine Church

– finished in 1935

Žabovřesky

– Salesian church of Our Lady Help of Christians from 1990s

Královo Pole (former Charterhouse)

– Holy Trinity Church, built in 1370s as a part of Carthusian monastery (founded 1375, abolished 1782), later reconstructed in Baroque style

Zábrdovice (former Premonstratensian Abbey)

– a Baroque church of the Assumption from 1660s (interior from the 18th century), a part of the former Premonstratensian monastery abolished in 1780s with St. Cunigunde Church (dedicated 1211); nowadays it serves as a hospital

Husovice

– church of the Sacred Heart with Art Nouveau elements, finished 1910; since 1990s administered by the Franciscans

Židenice

– St. Cyril and Methodius Church, finished 1935

Church of the Immaculate Conception

– Křenová Street, built in 1910s in Art Nouveau style instead of demolished St. Stephen Church

Komárov

– St. Giles Church, the oldest one in Brno (from beginning of the 12th century), later rebuilt

[edit] Protestant

Hussite Church in Botanická Street

– a functionalistic building from 1928-1929

Hussite Church in Královo Pole
Hussite Church in Židenice
Evangelical Church in Židenice

[edit] Non-Christian places of worship

Synagogue in the Skořepka Street

– the only remaining one of Brno synagogues, a functionalistic building from 1930s

Mosque

– in the Vienna (Vídeňská) Street; the first mosque in the Czech Republic (opened 1998), with no minaret

[edit] Photogallery

The Augustinian Abbey	St. Leopold Church	St. Augustine Church	Church in Královo Pole with a part of former Charterhouse
Church in Zábrdovice	Church in Husovice	Roman Catholic Church in Židenice	Church of the Immaculate Conception
Church in Komárov	Hussite Church in the Botanická Street	Hussite Church in Královo Pole	Hussite Church in Židenice
Evangelical Church in Židenice	Brno Synagogue	Brno Mosque

[edit] Joined villages and large housing estates

Horní Heršpice – St. Clement Hofbauer Church
Přízřenice – St. Margaret Church
Starý Lískovec – St. John of Nepomuk Church
Komín – St. Lawrence Church
Bystrc – Church of St. John the Baptist and John the Apostle
Žebětín – St. Bartholomew Church
Řečkovice – St. Lawrence Church
Soběšice – Church of the Immaculate Conception
Obřany – St. Wenceslaus Church
Líšeň – St. Giles Church
Slatina – Holy Cross Church
Tuřany – Church of the Annunciation

[edit] Photogallery

Church in Horní Heršpice	Church in Starý Lískovec	Church in Komín	Church in Bystrc
Church in Řečkovice	Clarisse Convent with church in Soběšice	Church in Obřany	Church in Líšeň
Church in Slatina