Prague Pictures, Post the Third

One of the most interesting churches (that we did not get to sing in, unfortunately), was the St. Vitus cathedral in Prague Castle. Work started in 1344 on this cathedral, but it was not finished until 1929. And it was only within the last few years that the Catholic Church regained ownership of this cathedral from the state (... and promptly started charging admission...).

A few (ok, several) pictures that I took of the cathedral:

First, a view of Prague castle on the way to the cathedral:


A view of the cathedral from another entrance to the castle:


The church was very big, and surrounded by Prague castle. As such, most of my pictures are fairly close range of the exterior.

Front:



Side:




Towards the back of the church:


View down from the tower:


The inside of the cathedral contains many side chapels, the tomb of St. Wenceslas, and a royal crypt. Needless to say, it is huge...

The front altar:


The ceiling:


The big stained glass window at the entrance:


Example of stained glass window:


A side chapel (St. Wenceslas):


A large pipe organ across from the St. Wenceslas side chapel:


View of the city from the bell tower (over 200 narrow, winding stairs up), with St. Nicholas Church on the right in the Lesser Town, and the Charles Bridge running over the Vltava (Moldau) River: