Bridge, Church of the Nativity, St. Mary Magdalene and the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, 1967

A late Gothic monastery church of the White Magdalenes, an Augustinian order, was built in the late 15th century. It burned down in 1515 and was re-consecrated on October 20th of the same year. In 1756, Johann Gottfried Schmidl bequeathed 3000 gold coins for a new church, which remained unfinished after the order's dissolution. Damage from a 1769 fire prompted the Magdalenes to rebuild the Church of the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, completed in 1774. Joseph II dissolved the monastery in 17.. Read more »82, and the Piarists occupied the complex until 1876. Baroque elements were added in the late 18th century. The single-nave, oriented structure had an oblong nave and a five-sided presbytery. Pilasters, architrave, and a profiled cornice articulated the exterior. A flat vault covered the interior. Remains of a late Gothic gallery survived in the west. A late Gothic portal (1520-1530) existed in the north wall. Furnishings were mainly 18th century. The high altar (late 18th century) was temporarily housed at Jezeří Castle; the altarpiece, "Nativity," by Ignác Raab (1715-1787), is at the Most District Museum. Jan Václav Tschöpper's (1728-1810) 1773 frescoes were whitewashed in 1959 when the Orthodox Church took over. The church was demolished in 1972 during Most's destruction.