Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Mukařov, Neo-Gothic church in Mukařov, Czech Republic
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a Neo-Gothic building erected in 1890–1893 east of the old cemetery. It has a rectangular nave with three tall pointed windows on each side, a polygonal presbytery, a square sacristy to the south, and a three-storey tower with a pyramidal roof at the northwest corner. The nave interior is covered by a cross vault on granite pillars.
The first written record of the original church dates to 1318, and by 1352 it was consecrated to the Virgin Mary. It was demolished in 1890 because of decay, and a new Neo-Gothic church, financed mainly by Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, was built on the site between 1890 and 1893. It was consecrated on 13 August 1893 and served as the parish church until 2009.
The church is a filial church of the Roman Catholic parish of Říčany; it was the parish church until 2009. The carved altars, pulpit and confessional were made by Petr Bušek of Sychrov, and the altarpiece paintings by Jan Heřman in 1893. A Renaissance bell cast by Brikcí of Cimperk in 1573, bearing the Smiřický coat of arms, survives from the old church.
The church stands east of the old cemetery grounds, with the former parish house west of it. The granite for its walls came from quarries in the immediate surroundings of Mukařov. It is a filial church of the Roman Catholic parish in Říčany, so services are occasional rather than weekly.
When the medieval church was demolished in 1890, stones with small hollows were found in all four corners of the rectangular building, each holding a lead-cast symbol of one of the four Evangelists. A Renaissance bell cast by Brikcí z Cimperka in 1573, bearing the Smiřický coat of arms, survives from the old church.
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