Muttergotteskirche, Parish church in Landstraße district, Vienna, Austria.
The Muttergotteskirche is a Romanesque Revival brick church at Jacquingasse 12 in the Fasanviertel, built by Richard Jordan as part of the mother house of the Daughters of Divine Love. Its street facade carries two polygonal towers, and the three-aisled nave is covered by groin vaults.
Franziska Lechner founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love in Vienna in 1868; its first mother house, occupied in 1871, stood at Fasangasse 4. Through Archduchess Marie Valerie, the order obtained part of the University of Vienna's botanical garden, and construction of church and convent began in 1890 to Richard Jordan's plans, executed by Josef Schmalzhofer. The church was consecrated on 22 April 1891, with the high altar donated by Emperor Franz Joseph I. It became a parish church in 1939, was damaged at the end of World War II and restored by 1964; the parish was dissolved on 1 October 2017.
The church is dedicated to the Mater Ter Admirabilis, the "thrice admirable Mother of God". Its high altar holds a copy of the Roman icon from Santa Maria Maggiore, painted by Josef Kastner the Elder; Kastner the Younger painted the side altars and the murals. Since 2017 the former parish has belonged to the parish of Maria-Drei-Kirchen.
The church stands at Jacquingasse 12 in the Fasanviertel, part of the Landstraße district, and is reached on foot from the nearby Jacquingasse tram stop. It is a branch church of the parish Maria-Drei-Kirchen, so services follow that parish's schedule rather than a full weekly programme. The entrance is on the street facade beneath the two towers.
The high altar was donated personally by Emperor Franz Joseph I. The church received two new bells in 2005, dedicated to Saint Frances of Rome and Saint Paul of Tarsus. The 1884 organ by Johann M. Kauffmann has ten stops on two manuals and pedal, restored in 2020 by Orgelbau M. Walcker-Mayer.
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