Sacred Heart church in Gryfice, Catholic church in Gryfice, Poland
The Sacred Heart church in Gryfice is a brick Catholic church on Gorska Street, listed as a protected monument in the town. It has a single tower, a one-nave interior with wooden pews and a front altar, and a small yard that also includes a parish house and an auxiliary building in the same brick.
The church was started in 1930 at the initiative of a priest named Edmund Wende and completed in 1932, making it the first Catholic church built in Gryfice after the Reformation period. In 2011 it was officially added to the cultural heritage register.
The church keeps a copy of the Our Lady of Czestochowa image in a side altar, placed there in 2000 after the original was destroyed during the Nazi period. This image remains a gathering point for the local parish during feasts and special occasions.
The church sits on Gorska Street and is easy to reach on foot from the center of Gryfice. Since it is an active place of worship, visiting outside of Sunday services is a good idea if you want to look around the interior without interruption.
Shortly after the church opened, the parish received a gift of an Our Lady of Czestochowa painting for a side altar, but in 1933 soldiers of the Nazi regime removed and destroyed it in secret. The loss remained little known until the parish decided in 2000 to have a copy made, blessed, and placed back in the same spot.
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