St. Nicholas Church
Baroque church built as a Benedictine showpiece, later a granary, garrison, and now a Hussite parish and concert venue.
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This guide to St. Nicholas Church in Prague opens in 1781, when an order signed in Vienna changed what a Baroque showpiece was for. Along the way you'll meet the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, the painter Cosmas Damian Asam, and the sculptor Antonín Braun, whose saints crowd the facade. Best heard standing in front of the white facade, with the green dome overhead.
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