Bethlehem chapel Photo: Bethlehem chapel

Respectable chapel called Bethlehem, belongs to the Methodist Church and is located on the street Husova třída station is in the part where once was located the bus station.

Methodist Evangelical Church was founded in the early XX century in the USA. Its representatives appeared in the Czech Republic after the first world war and immediately gained a lot of weight in Pilsen. In 1926, he laid the first stone in the Foundation of the Bethlehem chapel. Architect of the future temple was made by Josef Blecha. He exerted maximum efforts to speed up construction, so it was completed in a year. Further development of the Evangelical Church in the territory of the Pilsen region was halted by the global economic crisis, when the highest ecclesiastical dignitaries were afraid to invest in the construction of new churches and the education of the flock, which were located abroad.

After world war II, Bethlehem chapel, the evangelists selected state. The original building was ideally suited for administrative purposes, so it was transferred to the College of engineering and electronics. In the chapel for many years housed the administration and the Department of Marxism-Leninism of this institution.

The Methodists were able to re-enter under the arch their chapel in 1991. By this time the Evangelical Church was not like that rich, so the reconstruction of the temple due to lack of funds lasted almost 10 years. In 2002, the chapel was used for worship. It is open most of the day, so visit it will not be easy.

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