St. George's Convent

St. George's Convent (Czech: klášter svatého Jiří) was a community of Benedictine nuns located in Prague Castle in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) between 973 and 1782.

Founded in 973,[1] the abbey was next to the seat of ecclesiastical and state power in Bohemia and occasionally the entire Holy Roman Empire, and played an important historical role.

[2] Although no longer active, the nunnery's building and the attached Basilica dedicated to Saint George still exist.

The abbey building housed the Czech National Gallery's collection of 19th-century Bohemian art for a long time.

The abbess of this nunnery had the unusual privilege of crowning the Queen consort of Bohemia, inherited in 1782 by the Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies.

Overview of St. George's Convent