• The Jan Hus Memorial (Czech: Pomník mistra Jana Husa) stands at one end of Old Town Square, Prague in the Czech Republic.
  • The enormous memorial celebrates Jan Hus, who was a fourteenth century religious reformer. He questioned the Catholic Church’s affluence and corruption.
  • The Czech-Austrian offices and the Catholic Church were against the creation of the Jan Hus Memorial, so eventually it was unveiled unofficially on the occasion...
  • Twelve years later, on 6 July 1915, it was unveiled in Prague’s Old Town Square to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Hus’s martyrdom in Konstanz.
  • Jan Hus Memorial. Jan Hus Memorial at Old Town Square was erected on 6 July 1915 to commemorate 500th anniversary of his death.
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  • When Czechoslovakia was under Communist rule, sitting at the feet of the Jan Hus memorial became a way of quietly expressing their opinion and...
  • Jan Hus Memorial Day is an official public holiday in the Czech Republic, which takes place annually on July 6, the day of the execution of the famous reformer.
  • The memorial is a bronze sculpture depicting Jan Hus standing defiantly in the middle of the sculpture.