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Interior of cathedral, 1836, by Marcin Zaleski Interior of cathedral. The profuse Early Baroque decoration inside from the beginning of the 17th century and magnificent painting on the main altar by Palma il Giovane depicting Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Stanisław were destroyed in German bombing of the church on August 17, 1944. [5]
The Deanery of St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw (Polish: Pałac Dziekana w Warszawie) is a historic building located on ulica Dziekania (Deanery Street) in the Old Town of Warsaw, Poland. Since 2016, the Deanery has been the home of the Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw. [2]
Canon Square (plac Kanonia), behind St. John's Cathedral, is a small triangular square. [18] Its name comes from the 17th-century tenement houses which belonged to the canons of the Warsaw chapter. [18] Some of these canons were quite famous, like Stanisław Staszic who was the co-author of the Constitution of 3 May 1791.
The Jesuit Church was founded by King Sigismund III Vasa and Podkomorzy Andrzej Bobola (the Old) at Piotr Skarga's initiative, in 1609, for the Jesuits.The main building was constructed between 1609 and 1626 in the Polish Mannerist style by Jan Frankiewicz.
St. Alexander's Church prior to destruction in World War II, c. 1890–1900.. This article is a list of places of worship in Warsaw, Poland, both current and historical.It includes Catholic, Uniate, Protestant and Orthodox churches, as well as synagogues and shrines of other denominations.
Cathedral of St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus in Świdnica; Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle in Szczecin. Co-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Kamień Pomorski; Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tarnów; Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Toruń. Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Most Holy ...
The latter was built in the 16th century by the Order of the Knights of Saint John, and while its exterior is fairly simple, the inside of the Roman Catholic church looks far more impressive.
A Metropolitan See, its suffragan dioceses are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga. According to the archdiocese's statistics, 30.4% of its population attended a church weekly in 2013. That is higher than a year earlier (29.8%) but church attendance may still be declining.