Kościół Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego i Matki Boskiej Pocieszenia w Poznaniu, Catholic church on Szewska Street, Poznań, Poland
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Consolation is a church building on Szewska Street in Poznań, with a single nave, barrel vaults, and an extended presbytery. It forms part of a monastery complex whose western and southern wings contain Gothic cloisters dating from the 15th century.
A duke founded this Dominican monastery in 1244, making it the oldest church still standing on the left bank of the Warta River. The complex grew and changed over the following centuries before reaching the form it has today.
Inside the church, choir stalls are decorated with paintings of two Dominican saints venerated by the order. The cloister garden, open to visitors, gives a sense of the daily rhythm that once shaped life in this monastery.
The main entrance is on Szewska Street, and from there visitors can reach the courtyard and walk along the preserved cloister wings. It is worth slowing down in the Gothic gallery sections, as the carved details are easy to miss at a glance.
A bronze tombstone of Feliks Paniewski, made in 1488 in the Nuremberg workshop of the Vischer family, was returned to the church in 1990 after years away. Its presence here shows that this monastery had direct ties to some of the leading craft workshops in Europe during the late Middle Ages.
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