Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Gothic cemetery church in Velhartice, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is a Gothic cemetery church begun in 1373, with a northeast porch added in the 16th century and covered by a diamond vault. Its cemetery gate and portals date from the same late Gothic rebuilding, and the presbytery received a new vault in the 19th century.

Construction began in 1373. In the 16th century the church was rebuilt in late Gothic style, when the cemetery gate, the portals and the northeast porch with diamond vault were added. In the 19th century the presbytery received a new vault. The three-part Gothic Velhartice Altar was sold to the National Museum in 1902 and is now in the National Gallery in Prague.

This church once housed the Velhartice Altar, a three-part Gothic artwork created around 1490, which visitors can now see in Prague's National Gallery. The altar demonstrates the artistic importance this place held for the surrounding region.

The church stands in the cemetery above Velhartice, reached on foot along paths from the village; the surrounding graves and walls make the approach uneven in places. The slate roof repaired in 1996–1997 was later found to have been laid with poor-quality material, and a new repair began after 2009. Visitors come for the building itself rather than facilities.

The church and its cemetery are considered the place that inspired Karel Jaromír Erben's ballad Svatební košile (The Wedding Shirt). The church also appears in the fifth episode of the fourth series of the series Policie Modrava, titled Mrtví do hospody nechodí (2022, directed by Jaroslav Soukup).