Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord
The Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord is a landmark of modern Czech religious architecture, completed between 1929 and 1932 to mark St. Wenceslas’s millennium and designed by Jože Plečnik. The building sits on Jiřího z Poděbrad Square in Prague’s Vinohrady district, and its form draws on old Christian and ancient patterns, giving a contemporary spiritual presence to this central city space. Inside, Damian Pešan contributed six statues of Czech patron saints above the main altar and designed the liturgical vessels, while the interior features a white marble altar, a three-metre gilded Christ figure, and a spacious basement chapel with a wooden caisson ceiling. The 42-meter-tall tower houses a colossal 7.6-meter-diameter glazed clock—the largest in the country—visible as the church’s defining skyline feature. World War II brought hardship: the six tower bells were melted down for arms production, with two copies returned in 1992. …
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