Evangelical church, Protestant church in Janské Lázně, Czech Republic

The Evangelical church in Janské Lázně is a single-nave Neo-Gothic building on Černohorská Street, its entrance front preceded by a narrower square tower that rises through an intermediate storey into an octagon capped by a steep helm. The exterior is rendered in imitation of stone ashlar, with buttresses along the walls. The polygonal presbytery has a star vault, while the nave is flat-ceiled.

Protestant worship in Janské Lázně began in 1860, when pastor Jan Kupka of Hermannseifen set up a preaching station for the many Lutheran spa guests from Saxony and Prussia. After the 1861 Protestant Patent, Kupka pushed for a separate church, financed largely by the Gustav-Adolf-Verein. A plot was bought in 1871, the foundation stone laid on 18 August 1873, and the church consecrated on 31 August 1879. In 1958 it passed to the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren.

The church began as a preaching station for Protestant spa guests from Saxony and Prussia, served from 1860 by pastor Jan Kupka of Hermannseifen. After 1945 the German-speaking congregation was expelled and the building passed in 1958 to the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, which uses it today as a preaching station of the Trutnov congregation.

The building opens for religious services, mainly on weekends, and sits conveniently near the town center. Outside service times, visiting may require finding a key holder or checking local information.

The church was largely paid for by the Gustav-Adolf-Verein, a Protestant aid society, after pastor Jan Kupka pushed the project through following the 1861 Protestant Patent. Its exterior is plastered to imitate stone blocks, and the tower rises from a square base through a gabled octagon to a steep helm.