Archcathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus Kostka is an archcathedral

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located in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...

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; in

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History

The building committee was called in 1895. The

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was blessed on June 16, 1901, by Bishop of Warsaw Wincenty Teofil Popiel. The building was built out of non-plastered brick, in the Rohbau architectural style, by which the church was built between 1901 and 1912, following the plans of the ''Wende i Zarske'' firm. The construction of the church was co-led by

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er Emil Zillmann, with small corrections made by architects:

Józef Pius Dziekoński Józef Pius Dziekoński (born 5 May 1844, Płock – died 4 February 1924, Warsaw) was a Polish architect and heritage conservator, a representative of the 19th-century historicism. He became the first dean at the Faculty of Architecture of th ...

, and Sławomir Odrzywolski-Nałęcz from

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. The

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is based on the

Ulm Minster Ulm Minster (german: Ulmer Münster) is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is currently the tallest church in the world. The church is the fifth-tallest structure built before the 20th century, wit ...

in Ulm,

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. The archcathedral in

, is the tallest building in the city, with a height of 104.5

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, and is one of the highest churches in

References

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