Chrám svaté Barbory
Czechia
Chrám svaté Barbory stands on a spur above the little River Vrchlice in Kutná Hora, where a small chapel to St Barbara, patron of miners, once stood. What replaced it was not a parish church in the ordinary sense. At the prompting of the Brotherhood of Corpus Christi, the townspeople paid for it themselves, and the result is a five-aisled Gothic cathedral that openly competed with the cathedral in Prague. It was also built outside the town walls, beyond the spiritual authority of the monastery at Sedlec, on land belonging to the Prague chapter. That placement may have been deliberate: the church expresses the burghers' devotion, the power of a royal mining town, its rivalry with Prague and its break from Sedlec. It has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1995.
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