The gem of the beautiful and green settlement of Cserkút is the slender church in the centre, which was built in the 13th century. The impressive facade of the church building is decorated with beautifully restored frescoes and works of art by Péter Prokop.
In accordance with ancient traditions the one-nave annular-vaulted building is east-west orientated and it has a semi-circular apse. Its mitre-roofed doorless tower is issuing from the western gable of the church roof. The round-arched and plain-corniced entrance opens from the southern side wall of the building. It used to be decorated with frescoes. The unbroken northern wall of the church nave is decorated with a Byzantine-style rectangular fresco, depicting the twelve apostles. The apse used to be decorated lavishly. Its lower part had purple drapery, above it on the right side supposedly the figures of the three Hungarian saints, Stephen, László and Imre were borne, while on the left side the Hungarian female saints were depicted. Unfortunately these walls of the church got damaged in the period of the Turkish Conquest and it also meant that the beautiful frescoes got also destroyed.
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The Clementinum is a historic complex of buildings in Prague. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries, the City Library also being located nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. The Technical library and the Municipal library have moved to the Prague National Technical Library at Technická 6 since 2009. It is currently in use as the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Its history dates from the existence of a chapel dedicated to Saint Clement in the 11th century. A Dominican monastery was founded in the medieval period, which was transformed in 1556 to a Jesuit college. In 1622 the Jesuits transferred the library of Charles University to the Klementinum, and the college was merged with the University in 1654. The Jesuits remained until 1773, when the Klementinum was established as an observatory, library, and university by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.