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Near the end of our stay in Prague I came across this interesting Hussite columbarium in the Vinohrady area of Prague . I wasn't familiar with the term columbarium, which is an indoor graveyard of sorts for cremated remains. The Hus' House (Vinohrady) Wikipedia page and Prague city website page about it have interesting history to read. First let's look at the outside: The plaque below reads: V květové revoluci 1945, kdy budova Čs. rozhlasu byla poškozena, vysílal pražský rozhlas z budovy zdejšího husova sboru ve dnech 7.-9. května zprávy o postupu spojeneckých armád, volání o pomoc bojující Praze. Památník znázorňuje génia povstání s plamenným mečem revoluce. Z vděčnosti Bohu a na věčnou paměť připomíná náboženská obec CČSH (Církev československá husitská) zde v Praze-Vinohradech. Which Google Translate plus some manual corrections gives as: In the May revolution of 1945, when the Czechoslovak Radio building had been damaged, Prague radio broad...

Phin a já jsme viděli tento chrám nedávno. Jmenuje se Zvěstování Přesvaté Bohorodice . Našli jsme ho náhodou, když se jsme běželi blizko Vyšehradu. To je první pravoslavný kostel, ve kterém jsme byli v Praze. To je moc krásný.

Last Monday was a Czech holiday to celebrate the founding of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. The “founding father” of Czechoslovakian independence was Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , who is widely revered. Even though that republic only lasted 20 years before the Nazis annexed Czechia (Bohemia and Moravia) and puppeteered the Slovak government, it was a good time in their history and built the foundation that people returned to in 1989 with the fall of Communism. Halloween isn’t celebrated here in the American style, though it seems to be slowly spreading as seen by more masks and advertisements for various spooky things. Our kids took part in a few small Halloween celebrations with friends from church, so we didn’t miss out on it completely. Erin also bought some candy and doled it out in uniform groups so the kids got to trade candy which was one of their favorite parts anyway. The previous weekend there were elections here, and there were several noteworthy events worth readi...