Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Orlová, Neo-Gothic church in Orlová, Czech Republic

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is a three-nave Neo-Gothic building with a transept and twin towers on its west facade, completed in 1905. The 15th-century presbytery survives at the rear, flanked by two-storey sacristies. The cream facade is divided by buttresses and finished in block rustication, and the nave carries a mosaic saddle roof. The tympanum of the main portal bears the relief coat of arms of the Břevnov-Broumov monastery.

A chapel on this site was first documented in 1223, built by Duke Mieszko II before Benedictine monks arrived; by 1260 a parish existed under the abbot of Tyniec. In 1466 Abbot Jan III had a new church consecrated, later enlarged and made a pilgrimage site. The church was rebuilt in Neo-Gothic form in 1903–1905 by Miroslav Martinec and Jan Sedlařík to plans by Josef Berger, and consecrated on 21 October 1906.

This church serves as a gathering place for religious ceremonies and reflects the Catholic traditions rooted in the Orlová region. The community continues to use it for regular worship and local celebrations.

The church stands in Orlová-Město and is reached by a staircase lined with statues, which is protected together with the building as a cultural monument. The interior is regularly used for Mass in both Czech and Polish, so visitors may find services in either language. Mining subsidence lowered the square by 1.83 m between 1959 and 2004, and the ground around the church was affected too.

The church is nicknamed "Silesian Hradčany", a reference to Prague Castle's hilltop silhouette. Between 1961 and 2008 mining subsidence lowered the ground by 2.5 metres; the square itself dropped 1.83 metres between 1959 and 2004. In the 1980s demolition was planned, and parish priest Antonín Huvar with several parishioners secured the building's rescue.