Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Baroque church in Brno-město, Czech Republic

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a single-nave Baroque church on Beethovenova Street in Brno, built in place of a 13th-century Romanesque church. Its main altar holds a painting of the Assumption by Felix Anton Scheffler from the early 1740s, and the walls of the side aisles carry a Marian cycle painted by the Venetian Baldassare d'Anna in the early 17th century.

A Romanesque church of the Virgin Mary stood here in the early 13th century; in 1240 the burgher Oldřich Niger gave it to an Augustinian convent, called Herburský after abbess Herburga. The nuns rebuilt it in Gothic style from 1280. In 1578 the Jesuits took over and built the present church from 1598, consecrated in 1602. Jan Křtitel Erna rebuilt it in 1662–1668, Mořic Grimm added a tower in 1732–1733, and it became a military church in 1773.

The name honors Mary's Assumption into Heaven, a devotion deeply rooted in Central European religious practice. This faith shaped how the space is decorated and how people gather here for prayer.

This is an active place of worship where visitors should maintain quiet and respect for those praying or attending services. The main entrance faces the street, and the interior layout is straightforward to navigate once inside.

In the Jesuit crypt lie the remains of Martin Středa, rector of the college here and a figure of the Thirty Years' War in Brno, who died in repute of holiness; the diocese and the Jesuit order seek his beatification. Two bells in the tower were cast in 1648 by Hans Knauf.