svatý Kříž

Czechia

You find Svatý Kříž on the corner where Na Příkopě meets Panská, and it is easy to walk straight past it. The front is a single bay: a doorway set between two columns and two pilasters with Ionic capitals, a Latin line above the entrance, AVE CRUX SPES UNICA, 'Hail, O Cross, our only hope', and a gilded cross on the attic above. There is no proper tower, only a small sanctus turret holding a bell cast in 1939 by the České Budějovice workshop of Rudolf Perner. This is a Roman Catholic filial church in Prague's New Town with its own spiritual administration, looked after by the Salesians.

Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kostel svatého Kříže (Praha) (cs.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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