Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill (documentation) and Citation bot (documentation). (August 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (June 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross (Czech: Rotunda svatého Kříže Menšího) is a Romanesque rotunda in Prague 1, Old Town quarter, on the crossing of Konviktská and Karolíny Světlé street. Its founding is considered after 1125.

Architecture

Small and simple building made of smaller marlite stones cut in rows consists of a round nave vaulted into a dome with a roof lantern, and half-round apse at the Eastern side. Apse is decorated by an arched frieze. At the top, there is a lantern with compound Romanesque windows, with, at the very top, gold-plated cross, crescent moon, and an eight-pointed star. Six-sided Romanesque ceramic tiles with a griffin of Vyšehrad type were discovered on the floor, a silver coin (denarius) from 1018 of Prince Jaromír from the Přemyslid dynasty was found near the rotunda in the 19th century. Romanesque marl roofing was discovered during restoration work in 2022.^[1]

History

The first written mention comes from 1365, when the rotunda was a

In 1625, the rotunda was given to the

External links

• https://www.prague.eu/en/object/places/457/rotunda-of-the-finding-of-the-holy-cross-rotunda-nalezeni-sv-krize

50°4′58.2″N 14°24′53″E / 50.082833°N 14.41472°E / 50.082833; 14.41472