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Gymnázium Karla Sladkovského

Gymnázium Karla Sladkovského — nursery / school for children, Prague 3.

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Type
Nursery / school
Address
Sladkovského nám. 8/900, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov, Чехия
District
Prague 3
Opening hours
Monday 07:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 07:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 07:00 - 18:00
Thursday 07:00 - 18:00
Friday 07:00 - 18:00
Age
for children of any age
Phone
222 721 118
Website
www.gykas.cz

Gymnázium Karla Sladkovského is one of the oldest secondary schools in Prague, housed in a Neo-Renaissance building at Sladkovského náměstí 8 in Žižkov. Its direct predecessor was the C. k. reálka na Žižkově, which began teaching its first two classes on 20 September 1897, still in the provisional premises of the Žižkov town hall on Havlíčkovo náměstí. In 1899 the building on Sladkovského náměstí was ceremonially opened, built at a cost of 250,000 guldens borne by the Žižkov municipal authority under the direction of architect Jindřich Motejl. Over the following years the reálka flourished, reaching a full complement of over 500 pupils in 14 classes. During both the First and Second World Wars the school lost several of its pupils, graduates and teachers — in 1943 the institution's structure was also changed from a seven-year reálka into an eight-year gymnázium. After the communist coup of 1948 the school's status was changed several times; for a long period a four-year gymnázium operated here, until in 1994 the school returned to a multi-year (first seven-year, later eight-year) gymnázium. Notable figures who worked at the gymnázium include Antonín Svojsík, who founded the first Scout troop in Bohemia here, and dr. Albert Pražák, who later became chairman of the Czech National Council in 1945, among others. It was precisely because of the high standard of teaching and the number of well-known graduates that the gymnázium used to be nicknamed the Žižkov Sorbonne.

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Updated 9 August 2026