Husův sbor v Nuslích Church

The Hus Assembly Hall on Táborská Street in Prague's Nusle district belongs to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. It acquired its present appearance through reconstruction in nineteen twenty-five. Nusle played a fundamental role in the founding of this church.

Antonín Procházka stood at its origin, expanding the Czech Missal published by Karel Farský on December eighteenth, nineteen nineteen. The calling of people to Christmas services foreshadowed the proclamation of the Czechoslovak Church in the Church of Saint Nicholas in the Old Town Square on January eighth, nineteen twenty. The meaning of the new church was then discussed in the Nusle National House by progressive women Božena Šťastná and Anna Štechová.

The Nusle religious congregation was founded on May seventh, nineteen twenty through a lecture by Karel Farský. The spiritual administration was taken over by priests Martin Zeman, Arnošt Šimšík, and Karel Janda, who were excommunicated from the Catholic Church for this. The believers initially gathered in the Church of Saint Václav. In the nineteen twenty census, thirty-eight point five percent of Nusle's residents declared themselves for the new church. At that time it was still an independent city, and it was not incorporated into Greater Prague until nineteen twenty-two.

The year nineteen twenty-three was a turning point. In February the congregation was officially approved. Due to disputes with the Catholic Church, the meetings were moved to the Rokoko cinema hall, later known as Tatra. In September the Council of Elders met for the first time in the Nusle Sokol gymnasium across the way, which had been purchased from the Sokol organization for four hundred thousand crowns. On the feast of Saint Václav, a service according to the liturgy of patriarch Karel Farský was held for the first time in the Church of Saint Václav.

The reconstruction of the gymnasium was carried out by Augustin Korb according to a design by Václav Prokop. A number of local tradespeople participated in it, from carpenters and plumbers to painters and glaziers. The assembly hall was solemnly opened on December thirteenth, nineteen twenty-five with a service by bishop Gustav Procházka.

Augustin Korb also donated four bells with inscriptions dedicated to Jan Hus, Jan Žižka, Jan Amos Komenský, and Karel Farský. During the Protectorate they were confiscated and melted down for war purposes.

The interior was furnished with an altar table by architect Kašpar, a cross by woodcarver Kotyza, a painting of Jesus by painter Baruch, which no longer survives, and stained glass windows by the Karlin firm Veselý. Three colored windows in the apse from nineteen twenty-five with the inscriptions Hus, Komenský, and Masaryk have been preserved to this day. The organ acquired in nineteen twenty-eight was later replaced.

In the May days of nineteen forty-five, the dead and wounded from the barricades were brought to the assembly hall courtyard.