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unusual facts about Church of Saint Roch, Žižkov



Battle of Vítkov Hill

In honour of this battle, Vítkov Hill was renamed Žižkov after Jan Žižka.

Church of Saint Roch, Žižkov

The Stations of the Cross were painted by G. W. Weis in 1854 according to drawings of Führichových, while the great fresco above the entrance to the sacristy, which depicts the Litany, was created in 1766 by J. Steter.

In its center is a picture of an earlier period, the work of Ignác Raab in 1760, divided into two zones.

The oldest preserved object in the church is the Baroque tin baptismal font from 1595 from tin-smith Matthew Voříška of Roudnice on the Elbe.


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