This high Renaissance gable is among three which rise on the south side of a 15th or 16th century church in Tábor, a town in South Bohemia, Czechia. The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tábor, (kostel Promenení Pane na hore Tábor) dominates the north side of Žižka Square (Žižkovo námestí), Tábor’s central square, named after Jan Žižka of Trocnov, a Hussite leader who founded Tábor in 1420.
Tábor, South Bohemia, Czechia: Renaissance gable rising on the south side of the 15th or 16th century Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tábor (kostel Promenení Pane na hore Tábor) on the north side of Žižka Square (Žižkovo námestí). The Church of the Transfiguration was begun in 1440 and competed in 1512. Tábor lies 88 km (55 miles) south of Prague. It has numerous Renaissance buildings and associations with the Hussite Christian movement. Hussites broke with Rome in using Czech liturgy and administering Holy Communion, both bread and wine, to the laity. Hussites took their name from Jan Hus, a religious reformer who was martyred in 1416. Huss’s followers included a radical party whose main centre was at Usti, a small town to which they gave the name of the mountain where Christ was transfigured, Tabor. In 1420, the leader of the ‘Taborites’, Jan Žižka of Trocnov, founded the present Tábor, 4 km (2 1/2 miles) to the north of the former Tábor. The main square in Tábor is named after Jan Žižka. The Taborite movement died out in the 1430s, but the town which Žižka had founded lived on as a royal town after 1437. The castle was later converted into a brewery.
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Location: The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tábor, kostel Promenení Pane na hore Tábor, T
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