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The High Synagogue and the St Nicholas in the Little Quarter
Pinkas Synagogue retain strong took almost 60 years to build. Its
elements of the style: the former lush interior and frescoed vault
in its 1586 exterior, the latter in make it Prague’s most important
the reworking of an original Baroque building, followed by
Gothic building. The Loreto (1626–1750), adjoin-
The Church of St Roch in the ing the Capuchin Monastery.
Strahov Monastery is probably The father-and-son team,
the best example of Late- Christoph and Kilian Ignaz
Renaissance “Mannerism”. Dientzenhofer designed both
buildings, and St John on the
Rock as well as St Nicholas
in the Old Town. 19th-century Neo-Gothic portal, Church of
A special place in Prague’s St Peter and St Paul
history was occupied by the
Jesuit Clementinum. This Neo-Gothic
influential university’s church
was the Holy Saviour. The During the height of the
Baroque style is closely linked 19th-century National Revival
with Jesuit teachings: Kilian (see pp34–5), St Vitus’s Cathedral
Renaissance-influenced vaulting, Pinkas Ignaz Dientzenhofer was was completed, in accordance
Synagogue (1535) educated here. with the original Gothic plan.
Klausen Synagogue (now the Work by Josef Mocker, the
Jewish Museum) was built in movement’s leader, aroused
Baroque 1689 with Baroque stuccoed controversy, but his St Peter
The Counter-Reformation (see barrel vaults. and St Paul at Vyšehrad is a
pp32–3) inspired the building of Many early buildings were well-loved landmark. The triple-
new churches and the revamping given Baroque facelifts. The naved basilica of St Ludmilla in
of existing ones for a period of Gothic nave of St Thomas has Náměstí Míru was also designed
150 years. Prague’s first Baroque Baroque vaulting, and the once- by Mocker.
church was Our Lady Victorious, Gothic St James went Baroque
built in 1611–13. after a fire in 1689. Finding the Churches
and Synagogues
Bethlehem Chapel p77
Capuchin Monastery pp116–17
Clementinum p81 (see also
History of Prague p33)
High Synagogue p87
Holy Saviour (see Knights of the
Cross Square p81)
Klausen Synagogue p87
The Loreto pp118–19
Old-New Synagogue pp90–91
Our Lady before Týn p72
Our Lady of the Snows p146
Our Lady Victorious p130
Pinkas Synagogue pp86–7
St Agnes of Bohemia pp94–5
Nave ceiling of the Church of St Nicholas in the Little Quarter St George’s Basilica and Convent
p100–101
St James p67
Baroque Neo-Gothic Modernist St John on the Rock p153
St Ludmilla (see Náměstí Míru p161)
St Martin’s Rotunda
(see Vyšehrad Walk p180)
St Nicholas in the Little
Quarter pp128–9
St Nicholas in the Old Town pp72–3
St Peter and St Paul
(see Vyšehrad Walk p181)
St Thomas p127
St Vitus’s Cathedral pp102–105
Slavonic Monastery Emauzy p153
Church of St Nicholas in Loreto St Peter and Slavonic Monastery Strahov Monastery pp120–21
the Little Quarter (1750) (1725) St Paul (1903) Emauzy (1967)

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