Church of Saint James the Greater, church building in Petrovice, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint James the Greater is an early Gothic structure from the second half of the 13th century that retains Romanesque features. Its west end has a prismatic tower, built in the second quarter of the 18th century and fitted as a bell tower in 1776, topped by a slender four-sided spire that replaced a Baroque onion dome in 1910. The gate pillars bear statues of Saint James the Greater and Saint Jude Thaddeus.

Built in the second half of the 13th century as an early Gothic structure retaining Romanesque features, the church was rebuilt in the second quarter of the 18th century, when a sacristy was added to the east and a square tower to the west; the tower became a bell tower in 1776. In 1910 Count Arnošt Emanuel Silva-Tarouca and his wife Marie Antonie Gabriela had the Baroque onion dome replaced by a slender four-sided spire and the exterior plaster removed.

The church is named after Saint James the Greater, whose statue stands on a pillar of the entrance gate, together with Saint Jude Thaddeus. At Christmas a nativity scene made of photographs of local parishioners is displayed, with about 600 figures by 2019; the idea came from MUDr. Jiřina Němcová.

The church stands in Prague's Petrovice district, about 750 metres west of the cemetery founded in 1907. The entrance is under the western tower, reached through the gate in the enclosing wall, whose pillars carry statues of Saint James the Greater and Saint Thaddeus.

The 1910 restoration by Count Arnošt Emanuel Silva-Tarouca and his wife Marie Antonie Gabriela removed the interior plaster, exposing medieval wall paintings that were then partly restored; their full restoration followed in 1980. The paintings had probably been created in the early 15th century.