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Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné ♦ Church of Our Lady Victorious

home of the famous Child-Jesus statue called the Infant Jesus of Prague.

This was a Protestant (Lutheran) Chapel from the time of Rudolf II until the Habsburg victory at the Battle of the White Mountain, when it was handed to the Carmelites. The Emperor Joseph II evicted the carmelites in turn.

 

Malá Strana, Prague

November 1996

 

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Taken in November 1996