Bridge, Church of the Nativity, St. Mary Magdalene and the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, 1946

A late Gothic monastery church of the White Magdalenes, an Augustinian order, built in the late 15th century. Destroyed by fire in 1515 and re-consecrated on October 20, 1515. In 1756, Johann Gottfried Schmidl bequeathed 3000 gold coins for a new church in Zahražany, which remained unfinished after the order's dissolution. Damaged in the Most fire of 1769, the Church of the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary underwent reconstruction, completed in 1774. The monastery was dissolved by Joseph II on .. Read more »March 18, 1782. The Piarist order occupied the church and monastery buildings from 1783 to 1876. Baroquized in the late 18th century, the single-nave, oriented structure featured an oblong nave and a recessed, pentagonal presbytery. Exterior walls had pilasters supporting an architrave and profiled cornice. The interior had a flat vault. Remnants of a late Gothic gallery remained in the western part of the nave. A late Gothic portal, dating from 1520-1530, was located in the north wall. Furnishings were primarily from the 18th century. The main altar, from the late 18th century, was temporarily housed at Jezeří Castle; the altarpiece depicting the Nativity by Ignác Raab (1715-1787) is in the Most District Museum. Frescoes by Jan Václav Tschöpper (1728-1810), dating from 1773, were whitewashed in 1959 when the Orthodox Church took over. The church was demolished in 1972 during the destruction of Most.