Longine rotunda
The Romanesque Longinus Rotunda ( Rotunda sv. Longina ) is a Romanesque church building from the 12th century in the Czech capital Prague .
It is located in the immediate vicinity of St. Stephen's Church and served as the parish church of the Rybníček settlement, which was first mentioned in 933. Today it is the oldest surviving building in New Town . Its original St. Stephen's patronage was transferred to the new church and the rotunda was consecrated to St. Longinus . It was probably in this context that it received a Gothic tracery window. In the 17th century, the lantern , which was larger than similar rotundas, was put on. Inside there is a baroque altar from 1762.
The rotunda was profaned in 1782 and meanwhile used as a storage room, but consecrated again in 1844 . A nave was added to the west side, which was demolished during the restoration in 1929 . Today it is one of the parish and cemetery churches in Prague's New Town.
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- ↑ Radomíra Sedládková. Architecture guide Prague. Ostfildern 1997. p. 29
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 14 ° 25 ′ 32.2 ″ E