Bridge, Church of the Nativity, St. Mary Magdalene and the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, 1966

This late Gothic monastery church of the White Magdalenes, an Augustinian order, was built in the late 15th century and burned down in 1515, being re-consecrated on October 20th of the same year. A citizen bequeathed funds for a new church in 1756 which remained unfinished. Damage from a 1769 fire prompted the Magdalenes to rebuild the Church of the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, completed in 1774. The monastery was dissolved by imperial decree in 1782, and the Piarists occupied the complex un.. Read more »til 1876. Baroque elements were added in the latter half of the 18th century. The single-nave, oriented structure featured an oblong nave and a five-sided presbytery. Pilasters, architrave, and a profiled cornice adorned the exterior. Inside, a flat vault covered the nave, with late Gothic gallery remnants in the west. A late Gothic portal, dating from 1520-1530, existed in the north wall. Furnishings were primarily 18th century. The main altar, also from that period, was temporarily stored at Jezeří Castle, while the altarpiece, "Nativity" by Ignác Raab, resided in the Most District Museum. Frescoes by Jan Václav Tschöpper (1773) were whitewashed in 1959 after the Orthodox Church took over. The church was demolished in 1972 during the destruction of Most.