Saint council Cyril and Methodius in Prague is a former Roman Catholic church of Karol Boromeusz. The Orthodox church has been used since the 1930s. It is a baroque building with a small tower above the main entrance, whose walls are covered with multiple pilasters. Inside is a modern iconostasis.
The church was built in the 1830s as part of a hospital for retired priests. Already at the end of the century, the hospital was closed and the church was handed over to the army. A devastated building was received in the 1930s by the Czechoslovak Orthodox Church.
Inside the church you can see reconstructed 18th-century vault paintings. They depict biblical scenes and saints. The walls below are decorated only with multiplied pilasters, repeating the facade of the building. In the central part of the presbytery stands a modern iconostasis.
In the church crypts there is a small exhibition dedicated to Czech paratroopers who attacked Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. They hid in the crypts of the church and died here. The plaque also commemorates the murdered Orthodox clergy and the people of Prague who helped them.
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