Klášter Nejsvetejší Trojice Rádu bosých karmelitánu / Discalced Carmelitan Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity - Slaný (Central Bohemia)
N 50° 14.013 E 014° 05.263
33U E 434937 N 5564996
Baroque complex of the Discalced Carmelitan Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity (Klášter Nejsvetejší Trojice Rádu bosých karmelitánu), originally Franscicant Convent, is one of historically and architecturally most interesting objects in Slaný.
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Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/01/2015
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Baroque complex of the Discalced Carmelitan Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity (Klášter Nejsvetejší Trojice Rádu bosých karmelitánu), originally Franscicant Convent, is one of historically and architecturally most interesting objects in Slaný.
The history of the Monastery is closely connected with the older Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Kostel Nejsvetejší Trojice).
This Church was built as a Renaissance Protestant cemetery church in 1581-1602 by local Master builder Wolf and Italian architect Jacopo Mazzetti at the site of town's scaffold called Golgota. But the town Slaný and church was acquired by Roman Catholic administration after White Mountain battle in 1620. The new owner of Slaný demesne, Bernard Ignác Count of Martinice, rebuilt by war (1623) damaged church and founded adjacent Baroque Franciscan convent in 1655. New Baroque Loretto chapel was erected inside the church in 1657. In 1665, after great fire, was damaged church completely reconstructed and reshaped in Baroque style by Italian architect Domenico Orsi. Church and convent served to Franciscans until 1950, when they were repelled by communist regime. Eventually, it was returned into their hands in 1992, but finally it was donated to Discalced Carmelitans in 1996... So, currently is convent in the hands of the Carmelitan Order and You can visit it daily during prayers.