Tonight, hundreds of churches will open across the country

Josef Gočár, Church of St. Wenceslas in Prague-Vršovice, 1930

Prague - More than 1,400 churches across the country will participate in today's Night of Churches, offering traditional services, as well as cultural programs and explanations about history. Last year, the event was attended by nearly half a million people. The Night of Churches aims to bring Christianity closer to visitors as a source of life inspiration and faith as a fundamental aspect of human existence. However, it also wants to present churches as an important part of social life.
Some typically inaccessible parts of churches will be open, such as organ lofts, sacristies, towers, crypts, and monastery gardens. In ten Prague churches, people will be able to see contemporary art interventions with sacred themes as part of the project God's Art.
Not only well-known and large historical church monuments will be open tonight, but also congregations or prayer houses often hidden in the courtyards of city apartment buildings. The walk offers, in addition to encounters with faith, new environments, and other people, a journey through the history of architecture from Romanesque times to contemporary buildings.
The Night of Churches is based on the voluntary cooperation of parishes, congregations, church communities, orders, and other Christian church communities. In Prague and the Central Bohemia region alone, nearly 300 churches will be open, encompassing all churches of denominations that participate in the Ecumenical Council.