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It was originally built for the congregation of Calvinists. Nevertheless it has an eventful history. The construction took place in the years 1652 - 1655 and it changed users frequently - Calvinists, army and the Ursuline Order transferred to Košice from Bratislava by the empress Eleanore. There was not even enough time to furnish it before it started to serve a different purpose. Not later than in 1731, sisters Ursulines took it definitely over and in the month of June it was consecrated. It is a one-tower church of the women’s order having gained recognition for providing education. Sisters Ursulines of Košice had the following types of schools: kindergarten, folk school, council school, grammar school, teachers’ training college and family school. |
| The exterior of the church is very simple. The interior emanates a women-line atmosphere. The altars are in Baroque style. The main altar is non-traditional. Big Baroque statues of Saints are fixed on consoles to the walls of the sanctuary. In the center, there is Saint Michael the Archangel - a patron of the church. It is assumed that wooden gilded statues for the grandiose altar were made during the first stay of sisters Ursulines. After their departure, the statues were stored but after their return in a few decades, they did not have enough resources for accomplishing the colossal architecture of the altar. On side altars, there are coats of arms of significant donors to the Ursulines. The empora, a contribution of Protestantismus, surrounds the nave in the level of the first floor. Windows are decorated with fin-de-siecle colour window panes and in the real part of the nave, there is a carved Renaissance as well as a Baroque bench. On the staircase to the chancel, there is a Baroque Madonna with the Child that might have been dressed with many votive jewels. Those went lost after the World War II. | |
/place: Mäsiarska Street/
MAP of the historical City centre
/© Photo: Jarmila Švehlíková/
