Jacob's Ladder Church, Brutalist church in Kobylisy, Czech Republic

Jacob's Ladder Church is a low building of the Kobylisy congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, on U Školské zahrady street in Prague-Kobylisy. The Swiss architect Ernst Gisel designed it, and it opened in 1971. Inside is a worship hall for 150 people with a pipe organ by Orgelbau Wünning from 1992, and an altarpiece by Miroslav Rada hangs on the front wall.

A branch congregation was founded in Kobylisy in December 1939, meeting first in a school and then in a rented carpenter's workshop on Rumburská street. After the 1964 plans for the Severní Město housing estates threatened the provisional chapel, the congregation secured a plot in U Školské zahrady and began construction in September 1969. The church opened on 6 June 1971.

The congregation was founded in December 1939 as a branch of the Libeň parish, gathering Czech Brethren Evangelicals and members of the Kobylisy Unity of Czech Brethren. Before the church existed, services were held in a school, then in a joiner's workshop rented from 1942 in Rumburská Street. The building also hosts weddings, funerals and, thanks to its acoustics, concerts and CD recordings.

The church stands in U Školské zahrady street in Kobylisy, in Prague's northern outskirts. The hall seats 150 people and the building also provides lodging for church visitors, so group stays are arranged through the congregation. Concerts and CD recordings take place here because of the room's acoustics.

Ernst Gisel gave his 1968 design to the congregation as a gift, and the church opened on 6 June 1971. The architect visited the building site twice to check the works himself. The belfry with two bells was added only in the 1995 and 2001 rebuilds by Radovan Schaufler and Jakub Roskovec.