Kostel svatého Prokopa (Malá Strana) House

The church of St. Prokop in Malá Strana is today located as a residential house in Prokopská Street, built on the site of the extinct Romanesque temple from the 12th century. This object is important by preserving the elements of the original Romanesque building and the early Baroque church.

In the early Middle Ages, this place was located between the settlements of Lawn and Nebovida near the stream of Strahov. After the construction of the Mala Strana fortification in 1253, the church remained outside the walls. In the 14th century he fell under the jurisdiction of the johanites, which has been documented since 1346. The Hussite burned it down in 1420. In the oldest painting of the panorama of Prague from Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle from the year 1493, there is a church with a saddle roof and a sanctum tower.

The construction has undergone several reconstruction. In 1585 it was restored along with the cemetery. In the 17th century, the Prior of František Šebestián Vratislav of Mitrovice was reconstructed. Ferdinand Louis Libstejnský of Kolovrat, a new Prior, decided in 1689 to demolish the old building and build a new church in the early Baroque style according to the Francesco Luraga project. The new construction was sanctified in 1693 with the participation of its construction author Antonio Luraga. The interior contained altars, statues of angels and pulpit by Benedict Fastenberger, but they did not survive.

In 1782 the church was abolished by the imperial decree of Josef II. In the following year, the architect Ignac Jan Nepomuk Palliardi converted it into a residential house no. 625 / III, while preserving the eastern wall with the curvature of the original presbytery.

Construction research from 1964 revealed a ground plan of the Romanesque church in the basement and ground floor of the house. The temple was single-bodied, with three fields and a secluded, horseshoe-oriented eastern ending. Under the western roof remains the remains of the crypt, which today serves as a cellar. In some rooms are preserved early baroque rolled vaults with sections. Apsida was added to the third floor during the reconstruction in 1693. There is a statue of St. Prokop from Ignatius Michael Platzer from 1811 above the entrance. Veduta Vincent Morstadt from 1842 captures the entire object.

This house represents a unique example of the integration of sacral architecture into civil construction, where visitors can follow the traces of medieval floor plan and baroque vaults.