Church of Saint Norbert, Romanesque Revival church in Střešovice, Czech Republic.
The Church of Saint Norbert is a single-nave Romanesque Revival basilica with a transept, a semicircular apse and a prismatic tower over the west entrance. It was built in 1889–1891 from brick made at the local Střešovice brickworks on foundations of Bílá Hora marlstone, and its exterior walls carry blind arcades of small stone arches.
The church was built between 1889 and 1891 under Strahov abbot Zikmund Antonín Starý, who consecrated it on 12 July 1891. It replaced the overcrowded Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels and was designed by builders František Rožánek and Jaroslav Kuchta. The Premonstratensians of Strahov chose Saint Norbert as patron and placed his relic in the main altar.
The church's name comes from Saint Norbert, whose relics the Strahov Premonstratensians moved from Magdeburg to Prague; it is the only church in Czechia dedicated to him. In the north chapel of the transept hangs the 1666 painting of Our Lady of Consolation by Erhart Keck, a copy of a Polish Baroque image from Líšov, honoured for the eight winged angel heads around the Virgin's head instead of stars.
The building is located at Sibeliova 49/2 in Prague 6 and is easy to reach on foot. Sunday services take place at 8:30 AM, allowing visitors time to explore the surrounding area before or after.
The church holds the only set of bells in Střešovice with a wartime story: two original bells were requisitioned in 1916, and the replacements Norbert and Prokop were seized during World War II and never recovered from Hamburg. The large bell now in the tower, cast in 1611, was borrowed from the abolished church at Aldašín.
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