Sankt Vitus-katedralen i Praha i Tsjekkia, og setet til Prahas katolske erkebiskop. Katedralens fulle navn er St. Vitus, St. Václav og St. Adalbert katedral (Katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha). Katedralen er oppført i gotisk stil. Byggingen ble påbegynt på 1500-tallet og etter 585 år med arbeider, fullført i 1920. Kirken befinner seg i Praha slott, og mange av kistene til bøhmiske konger står her. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert, a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral.
A prominent example of Gothic architecture, and is the largest and most important church in the country. Located within Prague Castle and containing the tombs of many Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors, the cathedral is under the ownership of the Czech government as part of the Prague Castle complex. Cathedral dimensions are 124 by 60 metres, the main tower is 102.8 metres high, front towers 82 metres, arch height 33.2 metres. The current cathedral is the third of a series of religious buildings at the site, all dedicated to St. Vitus. The first church was an early Romanesque rotunda founded by Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia in 930. This patron saint was chosen because Wenceslaus had acquired a holy relic – the arm of St. Vitus – from Emperor Henry I. It is also possible that Wenceslaus, wanting to convert his subjects to Christianity more easily, chose a saint whose name (Svatý Vít in Czech) sounds very much like the name of Slavic solar deity Svantevit.Two religious populations, the increasing Christian and decreasing pagan community, lived simultaneously in Prague castle at least until the 11th century. Construction of the present-day Gothic Cathedral began on 21 November 1344, when the seat of Prague was elevated to an archbishopric. King John of Bohemia laid the fo
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