To find the Church of the Holy Spirit in Opava, you need to go to the eastern part of the city, where the focus on the Minorite Monastery. Church of the Holy Spirit is with him, and is often mentioned in guidebooks as part of the monastery.

Minorite Monastery appeared in Opava in 1238. Its founder is considered to be the prince Mieczyslaw II. To have survived some of the original decoration inner peace. Modern pilgrims are able to see the main hall and the monastic dining room, whose walls are decorated with valuable paintings created in the XVIII century. To carry out various cultural activities and used a reading room of the monastery. It is named in honor of Ibsen. It is possible to visit in the regular, non-holidays.

When the temple was built in the neighborhood of the monastery is unknown. According to local chronicles, it happened a little later the construction of the monastery - around 1289. The imposing, massive temple in the Gothic style looked solemn and inspired awe and fear of Heaven. These are the tasks put before themselves the creators.

Stone Church of the Holy Spirit burned several times. After the second fire in 1689, which was particularly strong, the church had to be rebuilt almost from scratch. She gave the Baroque features, and made it more lush and elegant. So we see this church now.

Once under the arches of the church, note the ceiling frescoes, which had been worked in the early XVIII century, the famous master of IK Handke.

The Church of the Holy Spirit found their solace many of the princes from the local branch of the Přemyslid.