Charles Church (Warsaw-Powązki)
| Karlskirche | |
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 View from ulica Powązkowska |
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| Construction year: | 1790 |
| Inauguration: | 1793 |
| Style elements : | classicism |
| Client: | Catholic Church |
| Location: | 52 ° 15 '12 " N , 20 ° 58' 41" E |
| Address: | ul. Powązkowska Warsaw Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic [[ cemetery church ]] |
| Diocese : | Warsaw |
The Church of St. Charles Borromeo (Polish Kościół św. Karola Boromeusza ) in Warsaw 's Powązki district is a Catholic cemetery church on Powązkowska Street in the area of the Powązki Cemetery . She is the St. Dedicated to Charles Borromeo .
history
The church was built between 1790 and 1793 by Domenico Merlini in the classicism style on the initiative of King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski and his brother Primate Michał Jerzy Poniatowski as a cemetery church for the new Powązki cemetery. The first renovations were carried out in 1820 and 1837. The actual renovation in the neoclassical style was carried out by Alfons Ferdynand Kropiwnicki and Alfons Welke from 1849 to 1850 and by Józef Pius Dziekoński again in the years 1891 to 1898. The church was used by the Wehrmacht during the Warsaw Uprising bombed out. The reconstruction took place after the Second World War by Stanisław Marzyński , who restored the church in its original form until 1960. Władysław Zych painted the frescoes in the newly built church .
Geographical location
The church is located in the Powązki district of Warsaw (part of Wola and Żoliborz ) at ul. Powązkowska .
