Staré Město The Church of Our Lady Before Tyn

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Staré Město (The Church of Our Lady Before Tyn) Tynsky chram

Town:	Prague
District:	Staré Město
Style:	ghotick
Description:	This church, The Church of Our Lady Before Týn, persent one of the visual dominantsof the Old town Sguare. It's originaly Romanesque church mentioned for the first time in 1135 and belonged to the hospic of foreign merchants in the present Ungelt.An Early Gothic triple-naved church was built in he second half of the 13th century and the constuction of the Týn Church in itś present form started in the middle of the 14th century. Very famous is it's portal facing to Týnská Street as it is a richly sculptural decorated work (with a motiph of sufferig of Christ) of Petr Parléř.The Týn Chur went throught very intensive construction process by the reign of the king George of Poděbrady-he west gable was built, both steeples and so on.. After a fire which demage the church in 1679 the Gothic vault of the main nave was replaced woth an Early Baroque one, the original Gothic vaults of the side naves have been preserved. In the latter half of the 14th century the Church of Our Lady Before Týn started to be an important center of a Husitte movement.- the reformer preachers as K.Waldhauser and Milíč of Kroměříž or later on Jan Rokycana delivered sermons here. In the interior we can find an altar painting "Ascension of Our Lady and the holest trinity by K. Škréta (who is author of other paintings too.), sculpture decoration by J.J. Bendl, relief of The family of the Christ by F.M.Brokoff or Late Gothic baldachin by M.Rejsek of Prostějov. Behind the Gothic pulpit is the marble tombstone of the Danish astronomer Tycho de Brahe of 1601. Another tombstones inside belongs to Lucien of Mirandola and Renaissance one of Václav Bérka of Dubá.