The Church of St. James the Greater stands on the site of the original wooden church, which was first mentioned in 1386. According to preserved sources, the construction of the new church began with the laying of the foundation stone on 18 August 1720. The author of the project was probably Christopher Dientzenhofer, but the construction work was already managed by his son Kilian Ignatius. The church was consecrated in April 1723.
Although the abbot, in this case Otmar Zinke, decided on the construction of the rural churches on the monastery estate himself, the costs had to be borne, at least in part, by the local parish priests, both from the income of the parish and from the contributions of benefactors. For this reason the churches were simpler and plainer. In the case of the church in Ruprechtice, it is a single-nave building with an elongated octagonal plan, divided by wide window niches. The altar of the church was supplemented in 1998 with a new painting of St James the Greater by the painter and graphic artist Vyacheslav Ilyashenko. The church stands on a hill in the northern part of the village in the middle of the cemetery and a Renaissance two-storey bell tower from the second half of the 16th century serves as the cemetery gate. Most of the original bells were vandalised during the First World War. Next to the church there is also a rectory with a depiction of the emblem of Břevnov-Broumov Abbey above the entrance. In addition, the villages of Hynčice and Jetřichov used to belong to the parish of Ruprechtice.
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