Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Neo-Baroque Jesuit basilica with twin domed towers, a vast barrel-vaulted nave and Bollé-designed altar.
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This guide to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Zagreb starts at its main altar and follows the money behind it, back to the Jesuits who arrived in the city in the eighteen fifties needing a church. You'll meet Archbishop Juraj Haulik and the generous pledge he made in eighteen sixty, and the politics and economics that stood in its way. Best heard from the middle of the nave, facing the altar.
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