2026-02-04
The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland in Głogów was built between 1981 and 1986, designed by Marian Fiskus and Jerzy Gurawski. The construction, organized by Father Ryszard Dobrołowicz, was supported by the labor of residents of Read more…
Polish Deconstructivism of the late 1980s. The church was designed by Witold Jerzy Molicki, the architect of several Wrocław housing estates. Built between 1987 and 1991 in the western part of the city – Przedmieście Mikołajskie. Address: Młodych Techników Street, Read more…
A postmodern church in Wrocław’s Popowice neighborhood, built between 1982 and 1994. Designed by Wojciech Jarząbek, Wacław Hryniewicz, and Jan Matkowski, the building, intended by its designers to “reflect the thousand-year history of the church in Poland,” variously paraphrases Baroque Read more…
The Greek Catholic, postmodernist church in Biały Bór was built between 1992 and 1997, designed by painter Jerzy Nowosielski, who collaborated with architect Bogdan Kotarba. In 2019, the church—the youngest Polish building—was added to the West Pomeranian Voivodeship’s list of Read more…
This postmodern church was built between 1997 and 1999, designed by architect Marek Gierulski, who collaborated with Seweryn Danczak, Izydor Lyko, Katarzyna Kulpa, and Jolanta Janikowska (interior). Construction was overseen by Father Jan Sobczak, and most of the work was Read more…
The church was built between 1979 and 1991, designed by Henryk Buszko and Aleksander Franta, architects of the Tysiąclecia Housing Estate in Katowice (where it is located). It consists of a lower church dedicated to Our Lady of Health and Read more…
The church was built between 1994 and 1999, designed by Wacław Seruga and Małgorzata Buratyńska-Seruga, designers of the Wesele Północ residential complex adjacent to the church. The church complex, along with the parish buildings, walls, and gates, is constructed of Read more…
The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń is the main church of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland in Licheń Stary – a vast complex that also includes other churches, several chapels, a monastery, a hotel, Read more…
This postmodern church was built between 1984 and 1991, designed by Jacek Gyurkovich, Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich, and Przemysław Szafer. It was built as a votive offering for Karol Wojtyła’s election as pope and his survival of the assassination attempt by Mehmet Read more…
Construction of the church in the Silesian Insurgents’ Housing Estate in Pszczyna has been ongoing since 2011, with completion scheduled for 2026. The project is being led by parish priest Marian Neugebauer. The church is being built according to one Read more…
This two-story Catholic church was built between 1984 and 1997 on the site of a pre-war Protestant chapel. The church was designed by Maria and Stefan Müller. Address: 89 Hubska Street, Wrocław.
The church was built between 1990 and 1993, designed by Aleksander Holas, the architect of over 60 churches and chapels in Poland. Like Holas’s other projects, the church has been criticized for its secular nature (a sports hall?) and postmodern Read more…
The church was built in Wrocław’s Gądów Mały neighborhood by the parish’s first and long-time pastor, Dr. Czesław Majda. The entire complex, consisting of a chapel, tower, parish, and main church, was built over the last two decades of the Read more…
The church on Cegielniana Street in the Cegielniana housing estate is built of brick on the site of a former brickyard. Originally intended to be built according to a design by Dariusz Kozłowski, construction was halted due to a lack Read more…
A church commemorating the Millennium of the Diocese of Wrocław, its design echoes that of the Archcathedral of St. John the Baptist on Ostrów Tumski. Built according to the competition-winning design by Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, designer of the famous Wrocław “sedesowce.” Read more…
KThe church and monastery complex were built on the site of an earlier church, designed by Zenon Nasterski. The complex, constructed in stages, without interruption in parish activity, was built between 1981 and 1990. The slender, tall brick strips between Read more…
The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, was built between 1990 and 1996 in the Pogodna district of Białystok, according to the design of Andrzej Chwalibog. The church was constructed on a fan-shaped plan and has Read more…
The church was built between 1987 and 1992, designed by Gdańsk architect Jerzy Fokt. It was designed on a Greek cross plan. Its shape resembles a ship’s hull, and its style has been described as “postmodernizing.” The first parish priest, Read more…
A postmodern church located in the center of Suchy Las, a town bordering Poznań to the north. Construction of the church lasted almost a quarter of a century, from April 1989 to May 2013. During this time, its formal investor Read more…
The church, whose plan for its implementation was approved by the Four-Year Sejm in 1791 as the Temple of the Supreme Providence – a place of worship encompassing all religions, of a syncretic and Masonic nature, a votive offering of Read more…
The church was built between 1979 and 1988, designed by Roumuald Loegler and Jacek Czekaj, and consecrated on June 10, 1990. Built on a Greek cross plan, it is considered a Brutalist and Postmodernist church (although Wikipedia describes it as Read more…
The church was built between 1983 and 1989, designed by Krakow architects Romuald Loegler and his collaborator Jacek Czekaj. Address: Orla Street 17, Rzeszów.
The church, reminiscent of the Roman Colosseum, boasts 214 windows and a circular plan designed by Leonard Reppel (the architect of the more famous Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Ustrzyki Dolne). Built between 1981 and 1985, it initially Read more…
The church in Warsaw’s Ursynów district, built between 1982 and 1989, was designed by Marek Budzyński and Zbigniew Badowski. The postmodern church’s facade is Baroque in form, and its side buttresses are Gothic in style. The main decorative element of Read more…
A church in the Piątkowo housing estate in Poznań, built intermittently from 1990 to 2012. The church was designed by Eugeniusz Skrzypczak, a student of Jerzy Buszkiewicz, with whom he collaborated on the concept of the postmodern Green Hill in Read more…
A fixture on various lists of the ugliest buildings and churches in Poland, it was built amidst technical and financial challenges over a 30-year period, starting in 1983. The church, which has drawn sharp criticism (the architect is “obsessed with Read more…
Built between 1999 and 2002, according to a design by Witold Cęckiewicz, as an expansion of the 19th-century convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. After an unsuccessful architectural competition in 1997, the church’s design was commissioned directly Read more…
The Orthodox Church was built between 1998 and 2007, designed by Jerzy Uścinowicz, a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Białystok University of Technology. The church has two levels. The upper level houses two altars with iconostases and Read more…
The church was built between 1980 and 1983, designed by Andrzej Maleszka. Based on a modified design for a catechetical house, its three classrooms were incorporated into the church space in the form of an amphitheatrical choir. The exterior forms Read more…
The complex of buildings on Łazienkowska Street in Warsaw includes the Church of Our Lady of Jerusalem and the monastery buildings of the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem (a Catholic order founded in 1975 in France). The complex, sometimes called “Warsaw’s Read more…
This two-story church, built in the postmodern style between 1983 and 1993, was designed by Jan Krutul. The church is distinguished by its undulating, boat-shaped roof, a lantern-like tower, and the red and white national colors of the façade. The Read more…
One of Krakow’s most unusual and yet little-known churches, located in the Podgórze district in Rybitwy – the eastern, less populated, industrial and warehouse part of the city. The church was built between 1983 and 1995 on the grounds of Read more…
The temple was built between 1984 and 1993 (consecrated in November 1993) according to a design by Mieczysław Król, author of Katowice’s icons of modernism – Superjednostka, the Zenit department store and the now defunct Wedding Palace in Katowice. It Read more…
The Higher Theological Seminary of the Congregation of the Resurrectionist Fathers in Krakow is one of the most important works of postmodern architecture in Poland. In 2005, the complex was included in the list (and exhibition) of the 20 best Read more…
One of two churches in Wrocław dedicated to St. Elizabeth of Hungary (the other is the basilica on the market square), built together with a monastery in 1893–1896 according to a neo-Gothic design by Joseph Ebers. In 1945, it was Read more…
The cemetery chapel at Batowice Cemetery on Powstańców Street was built in 1998 according to a design by Romuald Loegler. It is considered the architect’s most ‘metaphysical’ work, symbolising the transition between reality and infinity, a ‘gateway’ to the world Read more…
“Mały Asyż” – bo nawiązuje do bazyliki św. Franciszka z Asyżu, “polska Sagrada Familia” – bo jego budowa trwa już trzecią dekadę, a wciąż brakuje mu najwyższej, piątej, 70-metrowej wieży. Tyski kamienny kościół zaprojektowany przez Stanisława Niemczyka, wzbudza kontrowersje i Read more…
The church was built between 1979 and 1982 in Tychy on Myśliwska Street, designed by Stanisław Niemczyk (the first sacred building design in his career). The interior of the church is decorated with polychrome by Jerzy Nowosielski. In 2019, the Read more…
In July 2020, a 15-tonne metal fragment of the tower of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Grajewo was dismantled. The openwork, postmodernist structure of the tower, characteristic of other designs by Tadeusz Zipser, was considered ugly Read more…
Postmodernist, one of the most interesting contemporary churches in Krakow, built between 1991 and 1994 according to a design by Stanisław Niemczyk and Marek Kuszewski. Consecrated in 2000 by Cardinal Franciszek Macharski. Together with the parish building and a small Read more…
One of the churches of the 1990s, often criticised for its ‘bizarre’ aesthetics. The church tower, or more specifically the associations it supposedly evokes, fell victim to criticism from forum and website reviewers. However, as you can see, it is Read more…
The church was designed by Stanisław Niemczyk, a former resident of this parish. It was built between 1995 and 1999 and consecrated a year later. The architect was assisted in his design work by his daughter, Anna Niemczyk-Wojtecka (stained glass, Read more…
One of Stefan Kuryłowicz’s first architectural designs (1985). The church, co-designed by Jakub Wacławek, was built over a period of 15 years, from 1985 (consecration of the construction site) to 2000 (consecration). It is the parish church of the Wierzbno Read more…
The Church of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe was built between 1981 and 1987 according to a design by Białystok architect Andrzej Chwalibog. The initiator of its construction was Father Mieczysław Gołaszewski from nearby Studzieniczna, and the building itself was erected Read more…
The design for the Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Opole was created in 2006 by Opole architect Janusz Oleniecki. The foundations for the building, which was a joint effort by the residents of the Chabrów housing estate, were laid Read more…
2026-02-03
The temple was built between 1998 and 2000.
Zrealizowano w ramach stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego