Red Church, Gothic Revival church building in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Red Church is a 55-metre-high brick Gothic Revival church with a cross-shaped plan, polygonal arms and a low sacristy beside the presbytery. Its prismatic tower ends in a tall pyramidal roof with a cross and finial, and the facade is clad in ceramic tiles imitating brickwork, with terracotta and stone details.
Built between 1901 and 1902 by architect Max Löwe, the building first served a German-speaking Protestant congregation in Moravia. Its purpose shifted significantly after World War II.
The church's name comes from its red brick facade, and the interior keeps the wooden pulpit and the carved side galleries from 1902. Since 2023 the former presbytery holds a book altar: shelves of books turned spine-inward, with stainless-steel plates forming a cross.
The church stands at the corner of třída Svobody and Bezručova street, next to the Research Library. A modernist glass-and-black-sheet-metal foyer links it to the library's directorate building, and the entrance with reception and café is reached through this annex. The interior holds 395 m² and is used for lectures, concerts and exhibitions.
The modern annex linking the church to the library headquarters has facades and a roof of black sheet metal and glass, with pink-tinted concrete inside. Its book wall holds volumes turned with their spines inward, donated by citizens in a public collection organized by the Research Library.
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