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An altar with a central image of Christ's baptism was carved in high relief around 1530 by the Master IP (or
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are finished with deep polygonal chapels with five sides of the octagon. The side aisles are vaulted with five cross-ribbed vaults on an almost square floor plan, which is joined by one cross rib vault in the tower. The nave and the presbytery are then vaulted by six rectangular, wide-ranging fields
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in our country. The pair of towers is topped with decorated cantilevered Late Gothic octagonal helmets, which are complemented by a gallery, four corner turrets, and, halfway through, another four decorative turrets. There is a Gothic gable containing the
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Church of Our Lady before Týn in 1256. The church became the center of the German inhabitants of Prague's Old Town. Construction of the present church began in the 14th century. The church was designed in the late Gothic style under the influence of
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worked there as organist for fifty years. The main altar from 1649 with a titular painting of the
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sculpture from the Parler workshop, with a relief depicting the
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from 1670 to 1673 that is one of the three oldest preserved pipe organs in Prague. From 1691, the musicologist
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