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svatý Pankrác

Czechia

You find St Pancras in a small park hemmed in by three streets, Na Pankráci, Sinkulova and Na Klikovce, on land that officially belongs to Nusle. It is a modest building: originally Gothic, rebuilt in the early Baroque, with a bell tower standing on its own beside it. Yet it counts among the oldest cultural monuments in Prague 4, and its reach is far larger than its size. The whole surrounding district takes its name from the church's patron, the Roman martyr St Pancras. The housing estates, the tram depot, the prison and the metro station all carry that name, so every sign you have passed on the way here leads back to this one small church.

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