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The Church of the Holy Cross (Polish: Bazylika Świętego Krzyża) is a Roman Catholic house of worship in Warsaw, Poland.Located on Krakowskie Przedmieście opposite the main Warsaw University campus, it is one of the most notable Baroque churches in Poland's capital.
Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, a Roman Catholic house of worship in Warsaw, Poland. Located on Krakowskie Przedmieście opposite the main Warsaw University campus, it is one of the most notable Baroque churches in Poland's capital
Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and St. Bartholomew (Polish: Kolegiata Świętego Krzyża i św. Bartłomieja) in Wrocław, Poland, is a two-storey brick Gothic collegiate church [2] [3] on the Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island), considered the second most important Roman Catholic church in Wrocław. [4]
The church has a single-aisle, with a number of side chapels and the tribunes. The ceiling stands out due to frescoes of Silesian painter Johann Kuben (1739-1745), presenting the glory of the Holy Cross (in the centre), [4], surrounded by eight scenes of missions of the Jesuit Order and their saints. [5]
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Polish: Katedra Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego), also called Opole Cathedral [1], is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church that serves as a parish church and the cathedral city of Opole [2] in Poland. [3] The church belongs to the parish of the Holy Cross in Opole in the deanery of Opole ...
Holy Cross Church is one of the most notable baroque churches in Poland's capital. It is currently run by the Missionary Friars of Vincent de Paul. The main building was constructed between 1679 and 1696. Its main designer was Józef Szymon Bellotti, the royal architect at the Royal Court of Poland.
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church (Polish: Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego) is an originally Lutheran, now Roman Catholic church in Jelenia Góra, Poland.It is one of the Grace Churches [] (German: Gnadenkirchen), built in Silesia after the intervention of Swedish king Charles XII, who forced Austrian Emperor Joseph I to provide right for Protestants.
The church is first mentioned in 1737 by the archdeacon of Poznań, Kacykowski, "under the invocation of the Raising of the Holy Cross". However, in documents from the second visitation conducted by the Bishop Franciszek Ksawery de Wrbna Rydzyński in 1777, the temple was named "Finding of the Holy Cross". By 1799 the temple was again in ruins.