Jesuit Church (Warsaw)
| Jesuit Church | |
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 View from Świętojańska Street |
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| Construction year: | 1609 |
| Inauguration: | 1626 |
| Style elements : | mannerism |
| Client: | Catholic Church |
| Location: | 52 ° 14 ′ 56 " N , 21 ° 0 ′ 47" E |
| Address: | ul. Świętojańska 10 Warsaw Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic Jesuit Church |
| Diocese : | Warsaw |
The Catholic Church of the Gracious Mother of God (Pol. Kościół Matki Bożej Łaskawej ) in Warsaw is a Catholic Jesuit church in Warsaw's Old Town .
history
The church was built between 1609 and 1626 by Jan Frankiewicz in the Mannerist style on the initiative of the Jesuit brother Piotr Skarga . The construction was largely carried out by Sigismund III. Wasa financed. The vault was designed in the Lublin Renaissance style. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in the 18th century, the church was taken over by the Piarists. After the First World War, the church came back to the Jesuits. In the Warsaw Uprising by the Wehrmacht initially burned down and later destroyed by blowing up the church after the war, was rebuilt.
art
The eponymous baroque altarpiece dates from before 1651 and probably comes from Faenza, Italy . It was hidden during World War II, making it one of the church's few preserved art treasures.
In addition to the altarpiece, there is also a baroque figure of Our Lady from the 17th century in the church.
The baroque crucifix comes from Lübeck and was created in 1645 for the Warsaw Jesuits. Like the altarpiece, it was hidden during World War II and returned to its original location after the church was rebuilt in 1957. A copy of the original crucifix is currently hanging in the Jesuit Church, as the original is in another Warsaw Jesuit Church in the Mokotów district.
The bronze angel door was created by Mitoraj in 2009 . It shows the scene of the Annunciation, with Mary unusually in the pose of Venus de Milo with the two angels below her, instead of the Archangel Gabriel next to or above her, as is usually shown.
The baroque tomb of Jan Tarłos was reconstructed in 2010.
In the entrance area of the church there is a late baroque stone figure depicting a lion. She belongs to a group of figures that Johann Georg Plersch created around 1750 and of which only the bear survived the Second World War.
Below the church there are three-storey Gothic cellars that come from the town houses that were located on the site of the church before it was built. The lowest basement floors are filled in. The top basement served as a crypt for the church, in which Maciej Sarbiewski , Karl Ferdinand Wasa , Eustachy Potocki and his wife Marianna Potocka were buried. The Vilnius Chapel of the Church is also located here.
Geographical location
The church is located in Warsaw's Old Town immediately north of St. John's Cathedral on Świętojańska Street , which leads from the Main Market Square to the Palace Square . The 65 meter high church tower can be clearly seen from the nearby main market.
