Church of Saint Wenceslaus in Nusle, Catholic church in Nusle district, Prague, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Wenceslaus in Nusle sits at Pod Vilami in Prague 4 and displays Central European church architecture from the early 1900s. The building combines traditional religious spaces with the building styles of its era, creating a modest and functional place of worship.

The neo-classical chapel of St Wenceslas was built in 1898, the year Emperor Franz Joseph I raised Nusle to a royal town, as part of the school complex in Svatoslavova Street. In 1903, when Nusle was detached from the Michle parish, the chapel became the parish church of the new Nusle parish. At Christmas 1919, catechists began celebrating Mass in Czech here, before the Czechoslovak Church was proclaimed on 8 January 1920; on 28 September 1923 the first liturgy of Patriarch Karel Farský was said in the church. After a fire in 1962, architect Jaroslav Čermák redesigned the interior in 1967–1968.

The church is the centre of an annual round of outdoor processions through the surrounding Nusle streets, held since 1990 for the Three Kings, Carnival, Ascension, Corpus Christi and the feast of Saint Wenceslaus, the patron. A parish club runs a free lending library with books and the parish newsletter.

The building serves the community as a place for regular Catholic services and religious observances. Visitors will find a traditional worship space that operates under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague.

The organ dates from around 1900 and was badly damaged in the 1962 fire; parishioners paid for its restoration by the firm Igra. Its replacement case failed modern requirements, so in 1999 the instrument was moved to the choir loft and rebuilt again.