Kapliczka św. Rocha i św. Sebastiana w Łodzi, Baroque wooden chapel in Łagiewniki district, Łódź, Poland.
Kapliczka św. Rocha i św. Sebastiana is a wooden Baroque chapel built with log construction, with a flat ceiling and a suspended Baroque choir loft. Its 18th-century altar holds a restored image of Saint Roch, and two votive tablets hang on the walls beside it.
The chapel dates from the early 18th century and may have used timber from the first Franciscan church of the 1670s, replaced by the brick church of St Anthony. It is one of two survivors of six Franciscan chapels in Łagiewniki; the other four, including the Przemienienie Pańskie chapel, were destroyed by German occupiers in 1941–1943. Renovated in the 1960s and 2003–2006, it was entered in the heritage register in 1970.
The chapel is dedicated to Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian, both invoked against plague; the 18th-century altar holds a restored image of Saint Roch, and two votive tablets hang on the walls beside it. The building is one of two wooden Baroque chapels left at Wycieczkowa Street 75, visited by local residents and travellers.
The chapel stands at Wycieczkowa 75 in Łódź-Łagiewniki, next to the Chapel of St Anthony. It is a small wooden building; visitors view the interior through the doorway or during services. The surrounding area is a wooded former Franciscan sanctuary, so allow time to walk between the two surviving chapels.
This chapel survived destruction during German occupation in World War II, when four of the original six buildings in the complex were demolished between 1941 and 1943. Only it and the Anthony chapel remain today as witnesses to the sanctuary's former scale.
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