Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Baroque church in Modřany, Czech Republic

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a baroque structure in Modřany featuring a tall central tower decorated with carved stone details on its outer walls. Inside, you will find religious paintings and sculpted reliefs depicting sacred scenes.

The church is first documented indirectly in 1329, when a parish priest named Vojtěch signed a Prague chapter document, and directly in 1384 in a list of parish churches of the Říčany archdeaconry. Hussites plundered Modřany and burned the church in 1420 on their march to the Zbraslav monastery. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 the Zbraslav Cistercians repaired and enlarged it, giving the building its present form; in 1754 Abbot Adam Aysl had it rebuilt from the foundations and the ruined bell tower repaired.

A stone Stations of the Cross opened in 2015 runs from the park by the church to the bell tower: fourteen granite crosses with reliefs by sculptor Miroslav Beščec of Dobříš, each different and set some deliberately askew. Descriptions of the stations are on an information board at the park entrance, not at the crosses.

The church stands on a small hill ringed by the Modřany cemetery, with the parish house (fara) next to it. A Way of the Cross of fourteen granite crosses runs from the park by the church up to the bell tower; the descriptions of the stations are on an information board at the park entrance, not at the crosses themselves.

A Stations of the Cross opened in 2015 runs through the park by the church up to the bell tower: fourteen granite conciliation crosses with reliefs by sculptor Miroslav Beščec of Dobříš, each different and set deep in the ground, some deliberately askew. The descriptions of the stations are not at the crosses but on an information board at the park entrance.