Luxor, Egypt
c. 1970 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
1400 BCE
Aswan, Egypt
4th century BCE
Abu Simbel, Egypt
13th century BCE
Edfu, Egypt
237-57 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
16th century BCE
Kom Ombo, Egypt
180-47 BC
Luxor, Egypt
c. 1970 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
20th century BCE
Luxor, Egypt
1350 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
16th century BCE
Aswan, Egypt
30 BCE
Aswan, Egypt
2700-2000 BCE
Edfu, Egypt
3000-2500 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
1900-1800 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
2700-2000 BCE
The Chapel of St. Martin is the only completely preserved Romanesque building in Vyšehrad and one of the oldest in Prague. In was built around 1100 in the eastern part of the fortified outer ward. Between 1100 and 1300, the Rotrunda was surrounded by a cemetery. The building survived the Hussite Wars and was used as the municipal prison of the Town of the Vyšehrad Hill.
During the Thirty Years’ War, it was used as gunpowder storage, from 1700 to 1750, it was renovated and reconsecrated. In 1784, the chapel was closed passed to the military management which kept using it as a warehouseand a cannon-amunition manufacturing facility. In 1841, it was meant to be demolished to give way to the construction of a new road through Vyšehrad. Eventually, only the original western entrance was walled up and replaced with a new one in the sountren side. The dilapidating Rotunda subsequently served as a shelter for the poor.