Husův sbor, Gothic Revival church in Dejvice, Czech Republic
Husův sbor is a ten-storey building on Wuchterlova Street, built in 1925–1927 in Gothic Revival style with a 42-metre tower topped by a pyramid roof. Its church hall, a three-nave basilica with a barrel vault and star-ribbed ceiling, opened on 19 October 1928. The facade carries statues of Comenius and Petr Chelčický by Jan Vítězslav Dušek.
The building was designed by Jiří Stibral, built in 1925–1927 under architect Alois Zima, and the church hall in its courtyard opened on 19 October 1928. Patriarch Karel Farský, who pushed for a single liturgical space with a shallow, slightly raised chancel, died here on 12 June 1927; the building was listed as a cultural monument in 1990.
The church keeps the chalice, the Hussite symbol, in a niche above the clock and on the organ pipes arranged as a Hussite sun. The brass palms flanking the Lord's Table serve as altar candlesticks, said to have been brought from the Emmaus monastery.
The building stands at Wuchterlova 523/5, facing Šabachova park, with its main entrance on the central axis. The space in front of the entrance was reshaped in 2007–2008 into a small square with a stepped water cascade, footbridges, benches and three bronze horse sculptures by Michal Gabriel.
The relief above the entrance is by academic sculptor Josef Kotyza, not wood but stone, and shows Jan Hus taking leave of his friends. A large memorial plaque on the facade records that Karel Farský died in this building on 12 June 1927.
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