CHURCH OF ST. CHARLES
The Church of St. Charles is the World History of Architecture. It combines elements of the style of different epochs and cultures: the Greco-Roman temple in the form of a portico, the gleaming of the bell towers in the form of Roman triumphal gates, above them the Asian-style pagoda roofs, Baroque dome 74 meters high, large columns and many domes and towers like a hint of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, all this has stratified in the form of a pyramid with a wide base.
The inscription on the facade of the temple indicates the history of the Viennese church of St. Charles. In 1713, an epidemic of plague raged in Vienna, which claimed more than 8,000 lives. On the front of the portal you can see an angel holding a punishing sword above the city. In the foreground, the dead are carried away, and the suffering people are asking for an end to the torment. Emperor Charles VI in the same year gave a vow to his patron saint to erect a plan in case of victory over the plague. In 1714 the plague ended, and in 1716 the first stone was laid. October 28, 1737 the church was opened.
Inside one of the greatest religious places in the world breaks away: colossal marble pilasters support the entablature( beams overlapping) and pass to a colorful fresco showing us the open sky. The transfigured movement of light is felt throughout the space of the church, maximally intensifying in the altar. In the front part there are three-quarter columns that frame the chapels.
On both sides of the central axis, two small chapels adjoin one large. Three times we see Jesus, how he heals the sick and resurrects the dead.
The dome shape raises the theme of the vow evenly: in the center, the Lord God listens to the conversion of St. Carlo Borromea to the cessation of the plague. The angel holding the sword of divine punishment for Vienna above the entrance portal