Dominican Monastery in Olomouc, Religious monastery in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

The Dominican Monastery in Olomouc stands next to the Church of St. Michael, whose Baroque rebuild by Giovanni Pietro Tencalla (1673–1699) raised the Gothic structure and covered it with three domes. The convent buildings lie south of the church, and the medieval cloister with the Chapel of St. Alexius survives. The bell tower's lower storey is of broken stone, possibly reusing an older castle foundation.

The Dominicans settled in Olomouc around 1239–1240, and the complex was founded at the end of the 1230s above the city markets; tradition names St. Hyacinth as founder. Fires in 1393, 1398, 1404 and 1492 forced repeated rebuilding, and Swedish occupation worsened the decay before the Baroque reconstruction of 1673–1699 by Giovanni Pietro Tencalla. A court decree of 26 July 1784 dissolved the monastery, and the friars moved to the former Franciscan house.

The monastery's name comes from the Dominican order, whose convent was founded here in the 1230s; tradition credits St. Hyacinth with its founding. The cloister with the Chapel of St. Alexius, founded around 1380, survives from the medieval complex, and late Gothic paintings remain in the east wing of the ambulatory. Since 2021 the Archbishop's Seminary has used only the Marianum, the part rebuilt from the monastery in 1790.

The former monastery buildings now serve the Archbishop's Seminary and Palacký University; since September 2021 the seminary occupies only the Marianum, the part rebuilt in 1790 next to St. Michael's Church. Other buildings (Leopoldinum, Domeček, Salesianum) were converted into student dormitories. The church itself became a parish church in 1784. Check access to the church separately from the seminary buildings.

The church's Baroque rebuild of 1673–1699 by Giovanni Pietro Tencalla raised the west end, extended the east and covered the hall with three domes, a triple-dome ending with few parallels in Europe. Under the church, crypts were created. The 1482 bell tower stands on foundations thought to be the remains of an older castle.