St. Vitus Cathedral is the largest and most important church in the Czech Republic, standing within the grounds of Prague Castle. Work on the present Gothic building began in 1344 under Charles IV, with the French architect Matthias of Arras and later the German Peter Parler, but it remained unfinished for centuries. It was completed in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the cathedral was consecrated as finished in 1929. It holds the tombs of Bohemian kings and saints, the chapel of Saint Wenceslas and the Bohemian crown jewels. The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Prague and a symbol of the Czech nation.
Before and after
- 18 June 1929Birth of Jürgen Habermas
- 2 July 1929Birth of Imelda Marcos
- 28 July 1929Birth of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 4 August 1929Birth of Yasser Arafat
- 28 September 1929Construction of St. Vitus Cathedral
- from 3 October 1929 to 29 November 1945Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- 21 October 1929Birth of Ursula K. Le Guin
- from 24 October 1929 to 29 October 1929Wall Street crash of 1929
- from 29 October 1929 to 1 January 1941Great Depression
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