The Pilgrimage Church of St. John of…

The Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk is the final work of Jan Santini Aichel, a Bohemian architect who combines the Borrominiesque Baroque with references to Gothic elements in both construction and decoration.

With many furnishings designed by Santini himself, the church is remarkable for its gothicizing features and complex symbolism, quite unusual for the time.

When the Roman Catholic Church in 1719 declared the tongue of John of Nepomuk to be "incorruptible", work began on a church in Zelená hora (meaning "Green Hill", German: Grünberg) where the future saint had received his early education. (The present  Žďár nad Sázavou in the present Czech Republic, near the border between Bohemia and Moravia.)

It had been consecrated immediately after John's beatification in 1720, although construction work had continued until 1727.