Church of St. Peter at Poříčí (Prague)
The church is administered by the religious order Knights of the Cross with the Red Star and the administrator is P. Lukáš Lipenský O.Cr.
Around the year 1200, the Margrave of Moravian, Vladislav Henry, gave the church to the Teutonic order, which founded a hospital and also its residency there.
Constance of Hungary donated the church with properties to the hospital of St. Francis which was founded by her daughter Agnes in the same year.
The original brotherhood hospital has gradually become into the new Czech church order Knights of the Cross with the Red Star which has continued to provide worships there to this day.
Both aisles were covered with a groin vault and were closed by a straight wall on the western side.
The basilica's walls were 1 meter thick and were made from stones, which were put on lime mortar.
Regardless, the church looked strange because the new presbytery did not follow the main Romanesque nave and the southern Gothic one.
In 1419, after the battle, the Hussites evicted the Knights of the church and the pastor Nicholas avoided a lapidation just in time.
A tin plate baptismal font with a dated inscription was procured in 1544 and a Gothic bell tower was added to the church in 1598.
During the Thirty Years' War in 1632, the town was shortly controlled by the Saxons and Lutheran Stephan became temporarily the parish priest again.
The church suffered from an extensive fire and after that it was repaired and newly paved by charges from the New Town Council in 1653.
The roof of the main nave and the turrets burned down and also the chapel in the cemetery, the full ossuary, the clergy house, and the steeple, where all three bells melted.
The church was left in a bad condition after the fire because the New Town Council did not have money to repair it.
On eighth of February in 1702, Strahov abbot and bishop Vit Seipel consecrated the restored main altar of St. Peter, where a painting by Wenzel Lorenz Reiner was later delivered.
The main altar of st. Peter was enhanced with carvings of angels from the workshop of Matthias Bernard Braun in 1725.
In the years 1874–1879 with expenses from the New Town council, the church was completely rebuilt and repaired by the architect Josef Mocker, who puristically reconstructed it.
After that it was decided to the demolition - the baroque shield of the main nave, including the portal, were demolished and five supporting pillars were met by the same fate.
The new main portal was decorated with the Gothic Revial tympanum of Christ and St. Peter by Lewis Šimek, and also with a Czech and Prague emblem next to it.
The church also received new roofs and on the north side was added a chimney with a modern sculpture.
The Baroque balustrade of the choir loft remained preserved and the emblem of the New Town of Prague was inserted to its center.
The benches are situated in the main nave and the pipe organ stands in a choir loft in the western part of the church .
The clergy house was built in 1893 according to the project of the structural bureau, which was prepared by the constructor Constantine Mráček.
In the brickwork of the facade is sgraffito plaster, architectural elements out of sandstone and on the first floor there is a medallion with the year 1894.
On the ground floor there are shields with the signs of the New Town and the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star that are used as a decorative element.
