St. Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, the capital of Slovenia

Slovenia

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. It is one of the oldest churches in Ljubljana, having originally been built in the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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 near the city walls. It was the former parish church of Ljubljana, and is the current of Ljubljana-St. Peter parish.

The current building dates to 1730, when the old church was torn down and replaced by the Italian architect Giovanni Fusconi in a mixture of Late Baroque

Baroque architecture

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 and Neoclassical style

Neoclassical architecture

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After the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, the church was renovated in a Neo-baroque

Neo-baroque

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 style. This renovation was strongly criticised for its supposed low quality, and was followed by another, done between 1938 and 1940. The façade was completely remodeled by the Slovenian

Slovenians

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 architect Ivan Vurnik

Ivan Vurnik

Ivan Vurnik, was a Slovene architect. Together with, Ciril Metod Koch and Jože Plečnik, Vurnik is considered one of the initiators of Slovenian modernist architecture.-Early years:...

, while his wife Helena Vurnik contributed new interior decorations and mosaics. The church's ceiling frescoes are the work of baroque painter Fran Jelovšek; altar paintings are by Valentin Metzinger.

The church stands at the end of the Trubar street, on Croatia Square . The street was once known as St. Peter Street until after the Second World War, when it was renamed after the Slovenian Protestant preacher and reformer Primož Trubar

Primož Trubar

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. It is adjacent to the Ljubljana Medical Center

Ljubljana Medical Center

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