Church of St. Vladimir – Mariánské Lázně

In the years 1900 – 1902, it replaced the Orthodox house of prayer, which had been operating since 1878 in the building of the town hall. After repeated fundraising, initiated by local doctors and the Orthodox priest Nikolai N. Pisarevský among Serbian and Russian spa clients, the plans of the building were drawn up by the St. Petersburg architect Prof. Nikolai V. Sultanov (1850 – 1908). The construction was carried out by the well-known Františkovy Lázně builder Gustav Wiedermann, the author of the Orthodox churches in Františkovy Lázně (1889) and Karlovy Vary (1893 – 1898). The ground plan is based on a Greek cross, the quadratic centre of which exceeds the side apses. The interior is dominated by a rich majolica iconostasis, originally made in Kuznetsov near Tver for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. During the 1st World War. The carillon was requisitioned, during the 2nd World War. The church served as a warehouse, It was restored in the 2nd half of the 20th century.