Catholic edit

• Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul

– Petrov Hill; Gothic church rebuilt in the Baroque style during the 18th century, later partially reconstructed in the Neo-Gothic style; two characteristic towers (81 m high) dating from 1905; cathedral since 1777

• St. Michael's Church

– Dominikánské Square; a Baroque church from the 17th century, until the Edict on Idle Institutions in the 1780s, a church of the Dominican Order; later (1905 to 1950) used by the Redemptorists; some of the former monastery buildings serve as the New Town Hall (Nová radnice) of Brno.

• Church of the Holy Cross

– church of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Baroque building from the 17th century; the crypt under the church is a unique air-circulation system providing natural mummification of buried bodies.

• St. Mary Magdalene's Church

– a Baroque church from the 1650s, built for the Franciscans on the site of an older church that originated from a synagogue closed after expulsion of the Jews in the 15th century; the Franciscans resided here until the Edict on Idle Institutions; later the church (and adjacent monastery) belonged to the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (1912-1950); since 1991 it has been administered by the Congregatio Fratrum Sanctissimi Sacramenti.

• St. Joseph's Church

– former Ursuline church, nowadays closed.

• St. Johns' Church with the Loreto Chapel

– Church of Sts. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, since the Middle Ages a part of the Franciscan monastery; the originally Gothic church was renovated in the Baroque style during the 1720s-1730s, when the Loreto Chapel with the Holy Stairs was built next to the church.

• Church of the Assumption

– a Baroque church of the Jesuits, the only remnants of a Jesuit College from the 16th/17th centuries, interior partly from the 18th century.

• Church of St. James the Great

– originally the parish church of the non-Slavonic inhabitants of Brno, built from 14th to 16th centuries predominantly in the Gothic style; the spire (from 1592) is 92m high (the 7th highest building in the Czech Republic and the tallest in Brno).

• St. Thomas's Church

– a Baroque church with a monumental facade from 1665–1675 on the spot of the Gothic one damaged in the Thirty Years' War; since 1350 a part of an Augustinian monastery, planned as a burial place of Moravian rulers (Margrave Jobst is buried there); in the 1780s the Augustinians moved to Staré Brno.

Protestant and Orthodox edit

• Bethlehem Church

– built in the 19th century for Czech-speaking Protestants

• Comenius Church

– built in the 1860s in Neo-Gothic style for especially German-speaking Protestants (till the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II)

• St. Wenceslaus (Orthodox) Church

– built in 1930–1931 at the foot of Špilberk Hill

Gallery edit

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  Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul
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  Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul - interior
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  St. Michael's Church
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  Capuchin Church
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  St. Joseph's Church
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  Minorite Church and Loreto Chapel (with cupola)
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  Jesuit Church
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  Church of St. James the Great
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  St. Thomas's Church
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  Bethlehem Church
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  Comenius Church
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  St. Wenceslaus Orthodox Church

Catholic edit

• Staré Brno (Augustinian Abbey)

– originally a Cistercian Convent, from the 1780s a monastery of Augustinians transferred from St. Thomas Church in the city centre; famous for its association with Gregor Mendel, who served as its abbot from 1868 to 1884

• St. Leopold's Church

– a Baroque church of the Brothers Hospitallers with a hospital in the Vienna (Vídeňská) Street

• St. Augustine's Church

– finished in 1935

• Salesian church of Our Lady

– situated in Žabovřesky, Help of Christians from the 1990s

• Holy Trinity Church (former Charterhouse)

– situated in Královo Pole, built in the 1370s as a part of Carthusian monastery (founded 1375, abolished 1782), later reconstructed in Baroque style

• Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church (former Premonstratensian Abbey)

– situated in Zábrdovice, a Baroque church from the 1660s (interior from the 18th century), a part of the former Premonstratensian monastery abolished in 1780s with St. Cunigunde Church (dedicated 1211); as of 2010^[update] it serves as a hospital

• Church of the Sacred Heart

– situated in Husovice, with Art Nouveau elements, finished 1910; since the 1990s administered by the Franciscans

• Church of St. Cyril and Methodius

– situated in Židenice, finished 1935

• Church of the Immaculate Conception

– situated in Trnitá, built in the 1910s in Art Nouveau style to replace the demolished St. Stephen Church

• St. Giles's Church

– situated in Komárov, started in the beginning of the 12th century (the oldest church in Brno), later rebuilt

Protestant edit

• Hussite Church in Botanická Street

– a functionalistic building from 1928-1929

• Hussite Church in Královo Pole
• Hussite Church in Židenice
• Evangelical Church in Židenice

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints edit

• Meetinghouse on Sochor Street in the Žabovřesky District.

Non-Christian places of worship edit

• Synagogue in the Skořepka Street

– the only remaining one of Brno' synagogues, a functionalistic building from the 1930s

• Mosque

– in the Vienna (Vídeňská) Street; the first mosque in the Czech Republic (opened 1998), with no minaret

Gallery edit

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  The Augustinian Abbey
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  St. Leopold Church
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  St. Augustine Church
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  Salesian Church in Žabovřesky
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  Church in Královo Pole with a part of former Charterhouse
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  Church in Zábrdovice
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  Church in Husovice
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  Roman Catholic Church in Židenice
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  Church of the Immaculate Conception
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  Church in Komárov
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  Hussite church on Botanická Street
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  Hussite church in Královo Pole
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  Hussite church in Židenice
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  Evangelical church in Židenice
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  Brno Synagogue
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  Brno Mosque
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  LDS (Mormon) meetinghouse

• Horní Heršpice – St. Clement Hofbauer Church
• Přízřenice – St. Margaret Church
• Starý Lískovec – St. John of Nepomuk Church
• Komín – St. Lawrence Church
• Bystrc – Church of Sts. John the Baptist and John the Apostle
• Žebětín – St. Bartholomew Church
• Řečkovice – St. Lawrence Church
• Soběšice – Church of the Immaculate Conception
• Obřany – St. Wenceslaus Church
• Líšeň – St. Giles Church
• Slatina – Holy Cross Church
• Tuřany – Church of the Annunciation
• Tuřany – Hussite Church

Gallery edit

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  Church in Horní Heršpice
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  Church in Přízřenice
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  Church in Starý Lískovec
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  Church in Komín
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  Church in Bystrc
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  Church in Žebětín
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  Church in Řečkovice
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  Clarisse Convent with church in Soběšice
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  Church in Obřany
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  Church in Líšeň
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  Church in Slatina
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  Catholic pilgrim church in Tuřany
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  Hussite church in Tuřany

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• Biskupství brněnské, Brno (2000).
• Encyclopaedia of history of City of Brno
• Brno City website
• Orthodox Church community of Brno
• Jewish Community of Brno - relics
• Roman Catholic Bishopric of Brno
• History of Husovice