Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny
This Orthodox church—Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny—tells a story of wartime displacement and the reuse of sacred space. The parish was established in 1918 in Kraków as a garrison church of the Polish Army, with an earlier first location in a former horse-riding facility on Lubicz, later moved to a large hall in the barracks by Plac Na Groblach. After the outbreak of World War II, German forces expelled the congregation from the barracks, and the community turned to the devastated synagogue Ahawat Raim on Szpitalna, which had been used as a sawmill/workshop. In 1940, after negotiations with the new owner and a later renovation, the Orthodox parish created its church there. After the war, the Kraków Congregation of Jewish Faith sought the building for a garrison synagogue, but those claims were dismissed and the property was officially transferred to the Orthodox parish. …
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