The majority of church buildings in Brno belong to the

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, others mainly to

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churches. In addition, there are a synagogue and a

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. To describe the more notable ones, we can divide Brno into three areas: the city centre (inside the former walls), the early suburbs (from the 1850s until after

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), and former villages and large housing estates incorporated after World War I, including post-

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developments.

City centre

Catholic

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– Petrov Hill;

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church rebuilt in the Baroque style during the 18th century, later partially reconstructed in the

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style; two characteristic towers (81 m high) dating from 1905;

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since 1777 * St. Michael's Church – Dominikánské Square; a Baroque church from the 17th century, until the

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in the 1780s a church of the

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; later (1905 to 1950) used by the

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; 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

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of buried bodies * St. Mary Magdalene's Church – a Baroque church from the 1650s, built for the

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on the site of an older church that originated from a synagogue closed after expulsion of the

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in the 15th century; the Franciscans resided here until the

; later the church (and adjacent monastery) belonged to the

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(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

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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

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, 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

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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

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; since 1350 a part of an

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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

* Bethlehem Church – built in the 19th century for

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-speaking Protestants * Comenius Church – built in the 1860s in

style for especially

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-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

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Former suburbs

Catholic

* Staré Brno (Augustinian Abbey) – originally a

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, from the 1780s a monastery of Augustinians transferred from St. Thomas Church in the city centre; famous for its association with

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, 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 *

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church of Our Lady – situated in Žabovřesky, Help of Christians from the 1990s * Holy Trinity Church (former Charterhouse) – situated in

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, built in the 1370s as a part of

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monastery (founded 1375, abolished

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), 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 , lc = on 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

* 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

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Church in Botanická Street – a functionalistic building from 1928-1929 * Hussite Church in Královo Pole * Hussite Church in Židenice *

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Church in Židenice

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* Meetinghouse on Sochor Street in the Žabovřesky District.

Non-Christian places of worship

* 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

(opened 1998), with no minaret

Gallery

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Joined villages and large housing estates

* 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 –

Church

Gallery

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References

* Buben, Milan, ''Encyklopedie řádů, kongregací a řeholních společností katolické církve v českých zemích'', II. díl/1. svazek, III. díl/1. svazek, Libri, Prague (2003 and 2006). * ''Biskupství brněnské'', Brno (2000).
Encyclopaedia of history of City of Brno

Brno City website

Orthodox Church community of Brno

Roman Catholic Bishopric of Brno

History of Husovice