Church of the Assumption, Gothic church in Kájov, Czech Republic

The Church of the Assumption is a hall church with a double nave and an elongated, five-sided presbytery, built in late Gothic style between 1471 and 1485. A square tower with Baroque modifications stands at the southwest corner, and the presbytery is vaulted with a net rib pattern modeled on the Church of St. Giles in Milevsko. The north side has an entrance porch and two sacristies.

A church stood here by the 14th century, but it was burned by the Hussites in 1422. From 1471 to 1485 the parish priest Michael Pils, son of a reeve from nearby Chvalšiny, built the present late-Gothic church. In 1656 Cistercians returned and revived pilgrimages, and in 1995 the whole complex was declared a national cultural monument.

The pilgrimage site's name is tied to the Kájov Madonna, a late-Gothic statue of the Virgin venerated as miraculous, kept in the main altar. Pilgrimages, interrupted when the church became Protestant, revived after 1656 when Cistercians returned; October brought four main "golden" pilgrimages. Since October 2012 the Community of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross has served here and offers guided tours of the church.

The church stands on the edge of a slope above Kájov, with the pilgrimage route and the chapel with the healing spring below it. Guided tours of the church are provided by the Milosrdné sestry svatého Kříže community, resident here since October 2012. The whole complex underwent revitalisation in two stages between 2015 and 2022.

Masons left engraved marks on the church's stonework, still legible on the blocks today. A medallion on the east side of the tower records the year 1690, when a lightning strike damaged the tower and the whole building was repainted white with grey cornices and corner quoins.