Narození Panny Marie
In Narození Panny Marie, the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Church, stands a history that runs from the middle of the 12th century to the present only in memory. The church began in roughly 1125 as a Romanesque structure serving a parish in what is today Záběhlice. In the 14th century it was rebuilt in the Romanesque-Gothic style, reflecting the era’s merger of austere solidity with rising verticality. A lightning strike in the 19th century destroyed the original Romanesque tower and a Neo-Romanesque tower was added between 1876 and 1880. The fabric of the church preserved key elements, including an altar painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary dated to 1861, and three bells—two from 1876 and a third from 1889—marking the site’s long liturgical life. Major repairs occurred in 1948, and the façade was repaired in 2000 with support from Prague 10. The building is listed as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic, under number 18231/2-1939. …
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