If you are a lover of John Lennon music, I would recommend paying your respect to the John Winston Lennon Wall, Prague, Czechia. It has been a place of pilgrimage since the 1980s when Lennon was shot and killed in New York.

The wall's subversive status dates back to 1981, when someone scrawled
"John Winston Lennon" next to a water pipe, along with the dates of his birth and death. The John Lennon wall in the 1980s was a gathering place for the Czech youth's quiet counter-culture.

The secret police saw it as a plot to undermine the state and painted it over. Thus began a decade-long battle between Lennonists and the Police. After this battle, the Leninists fought against the Knights of Malta when the wall became Malta property.

The wall was saved after the intervention of the French ambassador (whose embassy is opposite the wall.

The wall has been renovated by the John Lennon Peace Club and became a shrine to all his followers.

The Prague Conservation Society warned that it would not live to
see another year until an artist from Prague's Academy of Applied Arts, Frantisek Flasar was commissioned to create John Lennon's face on the wall.

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