What you'll hear inside Votiv Church:

• 1
  High Altar

  A striking marble altar featuring a gilded retable and ciborium supported by columns of red granite, adorned with mosaics and statues of saints.

• 2
  Rosary Chapel

  One of the four side chapels of the transept, which housed the renowned polychrome Antwerp altarpiece until 1986.

• 3
  Chapel of the Cross

  A transept chapel featuring the Kreuzaltar, adorned with statues of saints set into the wall pillars.

• 4
  Bishops' Chapel

  One of the lateral chapels in the transept, featuring statues of saints set into its wall pillars.

• 5
  Baptistry

  Baptismal chapel housing the Renaissance sarcophagus of Niklas Graf von Salm, defender of Vienna during the Turkish siege of 1529.

• 6
  Altar of the Virgin of Guadalupe

  Altar erected in memory of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, brother of Francis Joseph, featuring the famous 'Barbara Candle', which weighs 264 kilograms.

• 7
  Neo-Gothic Pulpit

  Hexagonal pulpit supported by six marble columns, adorned with gilded medallions depicting Christ preaching and the Church Fathers.

• 8
  Antwerp Altar

  A masterpiece of late Gothic art from the 15th century, now housed in the museum.

• 9
  Emperor's Window

  A stained glass window originally depicting the emperor's deliverance from an assassination attempt, restored in 1964 with an emphasis on religious rather than monarchical symbolism.

• 10
  Museum of the Votive Church

  Housed in a former imperial oratory, this museum displays an outstanding collection of sacred art, liturgical furnishings, and the 15th-century Antwerp Altarpiece.