Photo: František Fridrich, Zdeněk Wirth, ‘Stará Praha’, J. Otto, 1940/Wikimedia Commons, public domain
The ceremony was attended by Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth, also known as Sissi. The imperial couple also made a significant contribution to a public fundraiser for the construction of one of the largest church buildings of its time.
The collection was financially supported by the Emperor’s predecessor Ferdinand I of Austria, who lived in Prague after his abdication, and later by the widowed Empress Caroline, after whom the newly built district was named – Karolinenthal – Karlín. Marie Riegrová-Palacká and her Committee of Ladies also contributed to the success of the collection. Nine years after the laying of the foundation stone, on the day of the millennium of the arrival of the Slavic heroes Cyril and Methodius, the church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Prague and Cardinal Bedřich Schwarzenberg.
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Source: Český rozhlas.