Rear view of St Nicholas in Malostrana with the adjoining Jesuit College complex Prague Czech Republic. The bell tower finsihed by Anselmo Lurago and the dome of St Nicholas tower over Malostrana Square below The massive complex looms against the evening sky as dusk gathers on a clear February day. The dome is seventy meters high and designed by the son Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer to replace a smaller dome his father had designed The complex the church was once the Jesuit College built concurrently as part of the Counter Reformation but was closed in 1773 when the Jesuit Order was expelled under Maria Theresa and Josef II under the Editct of Toleration and subsequent loosening of religious, political and social restrictions.
