Religious sites · Hradcany
Strahov Monastery
Strahov Monastery is a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1143 on the ridge above Mala Strana in Prague, best known for its Theological and Philosophical library halls of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Also known as Strahovsky klaster.
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Why it matters
The Philosophical Hall's ceiling was painted to fit a bookcase set bought secondhand from a dissolved monastery, so the room was built around furniture rather than the other way round.
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- Quiet places — A working monastery on the ridge, with orchards and a terrace looking back over the city.
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