The Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family ( ) also called Częstochowa Cathedral is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and was built in the
neo-Gothic style, it is a three-nave church following the Roman or Latin rite and is located on the street Krakowska in the city of
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Si ...
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
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[Z. Rozanow, E. Smulikowska (red.), ''Katalog zabytków sztuki. Miasto Częstochowa. Część 1'', Warszawa 1995]
It is one of the largest of its kind in Europe, built on an old cemetery in the years 1825-1898. It was built between 1901 and 1927 and designed by Konstanty Wojciechowski. The temple in 1925 became the cathedral of the diocese of Częstochowa, and since 1992 is the metropolitan church of the ecclesiastical province of Czestochowa. The facade of the basilica is north; opposite the John Paul II Square (formerly Cathedral Square). In the Chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa there is a crypt of the local bishops.
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Poland
Polish members of the Catholic Church, like elsewhere in the world, are under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The Latin Church includes 41 dioceses. There are three eparchies of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the country ...
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Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family
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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Poland
Buildings and structures in Częstochowa
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1898
Basilica churches in Poland
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Poland