15 religious places to see in Prague

The Czech Republic might be famously atheist, the times of Sunday mass and religious piety might be fading into historic memory, Prague will eternally be “the City of a Thousand Spires”, its skyline pierced with the towers of monasteries and synagogues. Through Prague’s millennia long history, its churches have survived the Thirty Year’s War between Protestants and Catholics, the ravages of World War II and Nazi Invasion, and an atheist Communist regime hostile to organized religion, giving it some of the best preserved and most fascinating medieval churches in the world. Alas, Prague’s Jewish community did not survive, with most horrifyingly murdered in Auschwitz, but astonishingly their synagogues, too, remain behind, now open to public visitors who want to take a peek at Czech Jewish life hundreds of years ago. Do something a little different and take a break from bar-hopping or beer tasting to stop by one of these fifteen beautiful monuments to religion while you’re in Prague.