The Bethlehem Chapel

This guide to the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague follows Jan Hus, the reformer who preached here in Czech rather than Latin to crowds far bigger than the hall was built for, starting in 1402. You'll hear about the lines from his own writing painted onto the walls contrasting Christ's poverty with the church's wealth, his excommunication in 1412, and his final sermon here before he fled the city. The chapel's own fate afterward, buried for over a century inside an apartment building, is part of the story too.