Husův sbor
Czechia
Stand in Šabachův park and look up at the building that faces it from Wuchterlova street, number 5. It is not quite what you expect a church to look like. This is a ten-storey block with a slightly projecting tower 42 metres high, capped by a plain pyramid roof. High on the façade a metal chalice, the emblem of the Hussites, sits in a canopied niche above a round clock, and at the very top a sun symbol rides on a long iron rod. Built in the neo-Gothic style between 1925 and 1927 to a design by Jiří Stibral, with builder and architect Alois Zima directing the work, it is regarded as the most conservative building Prague produced in that decade. That was deliberate: by fusing elements of different historical styles, Stibral meant to express the Czechoslovak Church's wish to complete the nation's reforming tradition.
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