Kościół pw. Najświętszej Maryi Panny z Lourdes
Kościół Najświętszej Maryi Panny z Lourdes is a Roman Catholic Lazarist church whose identity is inseparable from the devotion it houses—an image of Our Lady of Lourdes brought into the main altar as an exact wood carving copy of the Mother of God from the Grotto of Apparitions in Lourdes, visited by Pope John Paul II in August 2004. The congregation’s presence in Kraków stretches back to the 17th century, but the church building itself took shape when the cornerstone was laid on June 25, 1892, and the red-brick structure was completed two years later under Cardinal Albin Dunajewski. Designed by Stefan Żołdani, the church uses a Romanesque Revival approach; it measures 42.9 metres long, 16.5 metres wide, and reaches 45.5 metres to the top of its steeple. Inside, a nave flanked by two aisles is divided by rows of pillars, while a pipe organ sits by the entrance on metal supports. …
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