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Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Ostrowiec Św.


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Church in the Zakopane style designed by Tadeusz Rekwirowicz in the early 1930s. The founder of the construction was Mieczysław Iwaszkiewicz, then director of the Ostrowiec Plant.

Church in the Zakopane style designed by Tadeusz Rekwirowicz in the 1930s. Built from larch wood. The founder of the construction was Mieczyslaw Iwaszkiewicz, then director of the Ostrowiec Plant. The foundation stone was laid on 18 October 1931, the construction of the temple was completed the following year.
On the main altar there is a wooden statue of Christ carved by Konarzewski of Istebna. Polychrome in the aisle was painted by Edwarda Przeorska. In the left aisle there is an altar dedicated to the patron saint of miners, Saint Barbara.
Before the building there is a monument to the people of Ostrowiec murdered by the NKVD in Katyń and in prison camps in the Soviet Union.
Next to the Church there is a wooden bell tower, which currently has three bells and a cross from 1881 dedicated to miners of Ostrowiec.
Opposite the Church, across the Sandomierska Street, there is a former 19th-century hotel Fabryczny, which was the seat of the Republic of Ostrowiec during the revolution of 1905.

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Poniatowskiego street 4
27-400 Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
Provinsen: ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE
Lengde- og breddegrad: 50.9292743,21.3866815