Emmaus Monastery - Prague, Czech Republic - Picture Perfect Postcards on Waymarking.com

The Benedictine Monastery Church of the Virgin Mary (or Emmaus Monastery) was founded by Slavs in the 14th December 1347, when Pope Clement VI granted the request of Charles IV. and gave his consent to the establishment of the monastery with the Slavonic liturgy. Founded for a Slavonic Benedictine order at the request of Charles IV, and originally called Na Slovanech, the Emmaus Monastery dates from 1372.

During WWII the monastery was seized by the Gestapo and the monks were sent to Dachau concentration camp, then in February 1945 it was almost destroyed by a stray Allied fire-bomb. Some monks returned after the war, but the reprieve was short-lived: in 1950 the communists closed down the monastery, and tortured the prior to death. It was finally restored to the Benedictine order in 1990, and reconstruction has been going on ever since.

The monastery’s Gothic Church of Our Lady was badly damaged by the 1945 bombing, reopened in 2003, though the swooping, twin spires were added back in the 1960s.

Physical Address: Rasin Enbankment Prague, Czech Republic Description of Postcard Location: Emmaus Monastery and Rasin Enbankment Related Web Site: Not listed Parking Coordinates: Not Listed

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