St. Anna (Biała Podlaska)
The Church of St. Anna in Biała Podlaska is a Baroque Roman Catholic church in Poland .
history
The church was built in 1572 - on the site of an earlier temple - by the anti-Trinitarian Polish brothers as a Protestant church. In 1596 the Protestants were expelled by Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł , a leading representative of the Counter Reformation in Poland and Lithuania. From 1597 to 1603 it was expanded to a Catholic church and in 1603 it was dedicated to St. Anne . The church is built in the shape of a cross.
On the initiative of Katarzyna Sobieska, sister of the Polish King John III. Sobieski and wife of the ruler of Biała, Michael Kasimir Radziwiłł , a crescent moon was placed on the outside of the dome at the foot of a cross , commemorating the victory of the Polish king in the Battle of Kahlenberg in 1683, which ended the Second Turkish siege of Vienna .
In 1765 the church was expanded with a separate bell tower. In 2005 it was completely renovated .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 59 ″ N , 23 ° 7 ′ 3 ″ E