Location: Hlavná Street, Košice
On the south side of the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth you can find gothic St. Michael’s Chapel, devoted to the soul guide to the afterworld – Archangel Michael.
Chapel, built in 1330, stays on the place of former cemetery. Lower building of the Chapel was initially used as a charnel house (for bone relics excavated during cemetery digging for new graves). Upper building was used for requiems. Above the entrance you can see sculpture of Archangel Michael weighing the souls of the dead. Inside the Chapel there is St. Michael the patron of the dead displayed on the altar fighting the Satan-Dragon. You can also find a nice stone tabernacle, „ecce homo“ sculpture and relics of medieval wall paintings there. Above the doors to the Sacristy the oldest heraldry of Košice is located. In the Chapel’s walls you can see 18 gravestones from Cathedral and former cemetery embedded. Unique in Slovakia!
