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Church of the Sacred Heart, Prague
ROYAL CHURCH
Plan: 1921-1928
Built: 1928-1932
Commissioner: priest Frantisek Skarda
Address: Namesty Jiriho z Podebrad, Vinohrady, Prague
Access: open during services
Because of its unusual appearance (unusual facade, the church tower is as wide as the church itself), the church draw a lot of attention since the time it was built. “Many years later in the postmodern time, an American architect Frank Gehry visited the church and joked about it: I didn't realize that Michael Graves already got ahead of me in Prague.” (Andrej Hrausky, Janez Koželj, Damjan Prelovšek, Plečnik abroad: guide throughout architecture, Ljubljana, Dessa, 1998, p. 174)
The facade is shaped in a combination of clinker brick and concrete or square stones and resembles a royal, ermine coat.
Plečnik made many projects for the church and the final one is in its ground plan designed as one big hall in which individual self-supporting altars would be placed. But this did not come to realization. Only the main altar was built, the secondary altars weren't. The statues in the presbytery were made by Czech sculptor Damian Pešan.
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