Religious sites · Vinohrady

Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord

The Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord stands on Namesti Jiriho z Podebrad in Prague's Vinohrady. Designed by the Slovene architect Joze Plecnik and completed in 1932, it is a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

Also known as Kostel Nejsvetejsiho Srdce Pane.

The dark brick facade and wide glazed clock tower of the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Prague — The brick flank and clock tower of the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord. VitVit · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Why it matters

Plecnik gave the church a single wide tower with a glazed clock rather than paired spires, and clad the body in dark brick studded with projecting blocks - a deliberate refusal of the Gothic revival idiom expected of a parish church at the time.

Editorial context written by Global City Intelligence, not a statement from the venue.

Good for

Architecture & design — One of the few Plecnik buildings outside Ljubljana and Prague Castle, and the most unusual church exterior in the city.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

coordinates.latitude: Geonames database of geographic names (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07; Read from an authoritative geospatial publisher; see the coordinate's own status and role.
coordinates.longitude: Geonames database of geographic names (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
officialWebsite: Farnost u kostela Nejsvetejsiho Srdce Pane - official site (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07; URL retrieved and confirmed to belong to the named operator.
address.formatted: Farnost u kostela Nejsvetejsiho Srdce Pane - official site (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
operational.hoursText: Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord - published opening information (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07; Quoted from the operator's published opening information on the date read.

Operational details last checked 2026-09-07. Facts of this kind are treated as current for 120 days.

The previously held coordinate carried a stated precision of roughly 1.5 km. The state gazetteer's point, found by spatial query, is 12 m away and precise to about 25 m.

Official information

Address: Namesti Jiriho z Podebrad, 130 00 Prague 3 - Vinohrady
Access: mixed
Setting: indoor
Admission: Not verified — see official website
Status: active

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Point: 50.07811, 14.45063 · venue location · known to about 25 m
Verified: Verified against an official geospatial source, 2026-09-07
Source: Cesky urad zememericky a katastralni (CUZK)

Replaced the Phase 1 discovery-tier point, 11.8 m away, with an authoritative one. Both describe the same place; the difference is a change of source and of recorded role, not a correction of a wrong location.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Visit information

Checked 2026-09-07

Hours: Kostel se otevira vzdy 45 min. pred zacatkem bohosluzeb, pricemz po zadveri je otevren denne od 9 do 17 hod.
Booking: No booking needed
Access: mixed · arrival point is the venue location
Worth knowing: The church opens 45 minutes before each service; the vestibule, which looks into the church, is open daily from 9 to 17.

Checked against Parish of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord on 2026-09-07. Operational details can change — confirm with the operator before travelling.

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