Church of the Annunciation, Baroque church in Tuřany, Czech Republic.

The Church of the Annunciation is a baroque church in Tuřany with a white facade and classical baroque proportions throughout its structure. The interior follows the traditional layout of churches from this era with a nave, altar area, and ornamental details typical of the period.

A chapel dedicated to Saint Anne was begun beside the older church in 1693 to a design by Jan Křtitel Erna, and in 1804–1806 it was enlarged into today's baroque church. The old church was demolished in 1810 and its Marian patronage passed to the new building, which received its two towers with an arcade and open column gallery in 1888–1891. The south tower holds a bell from 1484.

The pilgrimage tradition centres on a 13th-century wooden carving of the Virgin Mary, called Our Lady in the Thorns, kept on the main altar with angels beside it. A mosaic of the Tuřany Mother of God above the entrance recalls the statue said to have been found around 1050 in a thorn bush by the farmer Horák.

The church is reachable from Brno by public transport with regular connections throughout the week to the Tuřany area. Visitors should plan their visit outside of service times since this is an active place of worship.

In the south tower hangs the old church bell cast in 1484, older than the present baroque building by more than three centuries. The wooden Virgin Mary in the thorns, a 13th-century carving, was hidden in Brno and then Vienna during the Swedish incursion and carried back to Tuřany in a solemn procession in 1642.