It was built in the neo-Gothic style by the Trutnov builder Karl Rieger. The church is dominated by an octagonal, 43-metre high tower built of brick masonry, where a 220kg-heavy bell has been hanging since 1929. Its upper part originally contained a relief of the Blessing Christ. Thanks to landscaping work carried out in the vicinity, the church was incorporated into the extensive town park founded ten years previously. The church served the Evangelical churches until 1957. In the year 1980, the building was reconstructed and turned into the Bohuslav Martinů Concert Hall. Nowadays it serves cultural needs of the town, as well as the purposes of the religious communities of the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brethren and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church in Trutnov. In the interior of the hall there are above life-size sculptures of a man and a woman called “The Voice” and “Listening”, created by the sculptor Olbram Zoubek, a member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Foto: Miloš Šálek
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