The Bethlehem Chapel is a chapel on Bethlehem Square in Prague's Old Town, dedicated to the memory of the children of Bethlehem.
The chapel was founded in 1391 for Bohemian sermons, and between 1402 and 1413, the master Jan Hus (the most important Czech religious reformer of the 15th century, whose work marked the transition between the Middle Ages and the Reformation and anticipated the Lutheran Reformation by a century) preached there.
It was largely demolished in 1786, but in the 1950s a replica of the original form was built using the surviving fragments of masonry. On the façade are eight slabs which, following the principle of a sundial, create the inscription "Za pravdu" ("for truth" in czech), an affirmation of Jan Hus' ideology and a reminder of his martyrdom.
Today, the chapel serves as a ceremonial assembly hall for the Czech Technical University, and the adjacent Preacher's House houses a permanent exhibition on the history of the chapel and the place where Jan Hus lived on the first floor.
The underground part of the chapel, known as the lapidarium, is used for exhibitions.
