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Karlskirche, Vienna, Austria

. . . THIS MAY TAKE A MOMENT OR TWO . . .

This is the exterior of St. Charles Church, now a Diocesan church, but once the principal church of the Premonstratensians in Vienna, Austria.

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The interior of St. Charles church.  Note the all-seeing, triangular "eye of God" above the High Altar.

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Nave
 
 
Historical pillars outside, reminiscent of the column of Trajan in Rome.
Cupola
Nave
 
Organ
 
The baroque frescos of Karlskirche
are every bit as stunning as those
in Schussenried

 

 

 

Plan

Section

Karlskirche as painted by an
infamous Austrian in the early 1900s