PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Křížová, Hedvika
TI  - Ecclesiastic buildings newly built and completed in Prague between 1980-2000 : Smíchov - Strašnice - Kobylisy
DP  - 2019 Jun 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 138--158
VI  - 35
IP  - 1
AID - 10.56112/sp.2019.1.05
IS  - 02316056
AB  - The article deals with the architectural conception and realization of ecclesiastic buildings in Prague between 1980 and 2000. Following the excursus to the historical circumstances of the ecclesiastic constructions in Prague during the 20th century the article focuses more closely on the period after 1950. Two buildings from the 1980s and 90s are discussed in detail - The Seventh-day Adventist Oratory in Smíchov and the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary in Strašnice, which in the author's opinion are so pronounced that they deserve to be presented in a mutual contrast. Moreover, they are the only solitary realizations of the period 1980 - 2000, not reconstruction or completion of older buildings. Initiations and historical context of the constructions, the needs and possibilities of the contracting authority and the architects' authorial invention are outlined for both buildings. Further the large renovations from 1990s are mentioned, of the congregation house At Jacob's Ladder and the Church of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus in Kobylisy. Architectural comparison of similar structures for ecclesiastical purposes outside Prague concludes the article together with the urbanistic and historical evaluation of the buildings and their setting into the environs context.