St. Mary on the lawn
The Servite Monastery with the Church of St. Mary on the Lawn ( Kostel P. Marie Na trávníčku ) or St. Mary on the Column ( Na slupi ) is a monastery complex in the Czech capital, Prague . It was built after 1360 in the south of Prague's New Town on the central connecting road in place of a chapel from the beginning of the 14th century.
The church was given the name “on the pillar” because it represents the rare type of single- pillar churches . It consists of a small double nave with an almost square floor plan and probably had a column in the middle from the start. The one-yoke choir with a 5/8 end is almost as long as the ship. In the front axis there is a slender tower on a square floor plan, the two upper floors of which merge into an octagon. Today's four cross vaults were only drawn in between 1436 and 1480. In 1858–1863 the church was restored.
According to a more recent tradition, the support is said to go back to a pagan column of the god Svatovit , which was later replaced by a Christian Marian column. A little later this name went over to the whole area up to the Karlshof , which is still called 'am Slup' ( Na slupi ) today.
The monastery buildings were rebuilt from 1666 to 1726 after being destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The monastery was abolished as early as 1785 and replaced in the middle of the 19th century by today's neo-Gothic building, which serves as the research institute of Charles University in Prague on the Albertov / Alberthof campus .
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows is not far on the same street .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 14 ° 25 ′ 17.4 ″ E