Vienna students swap lecture halls for pews


By AGENCY
When there is no mass, Vienna’s Votivkirche church turns into a study hall for university students. Photo: AFP

Throughout the day, hushed voices fill Vienna’s Votivkirche church, but not in prayer: the coronavirus pandemic has led to its tall, neo-Gothic spires housing a study hall for university students.

“It’s very cool to study in the Votivkirche, but it’s very cold, ” 19-year-old Mia Bardone, who is studying to be a teacher, said recently as she read old German poetry in the light streaming through the church’s stained-glass windows.

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