Location Vienna, Austria Architectural type Church Completed 1753 Architectural style Baroque architecture Year consecrated 1719 | Website www.mariatreu.at Groundbreaking 1698 Opened 1753 Phone +43 1 4050425 Affiliation Catholic Church | |
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Leadership P. Miroslaw Baranski SP Address Piaristengasse 54, 1080 Wien, Austria Architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt Similar Dominican Church - Vienna, St Michael's Church - V, Maria am Gestade, St Peter's Church, Votive Church - Vienna Profiles | ||
The Piarist Church, also known as the Church of Maria Treu, is a Baroque parish church of the Order of the Piarists (Patres Scholarum Piarum) in Vienna, Austria. It is located in Vienna's 8th district (Josefstadt). The Piaristenkirche was elevated to the rank of Basilica Minor in 1949.
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Interior
The church has eight chapels and is decorated with frescoes made by Franz Anton Maulbertsch in 1752–53.
Trivia
Commissioned by the Piarists, Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli (Mass in Time of War, sometimes known as the Paukenmesse or Kettledrum Mass) was first performed on 26 December 1796.
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