Saint James church in Obra, Baroque church in Obra, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Saint James Church in Obra is a single-nave, vaulted late-Baroque church with Rococo furnishings, rebuilt in the 18th century to a design by Giovanni Catenazzi and consecrated again in 1787. Its interior holds the 1756 Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Szymon Czechowicz in the main altar, side altars carved by Augustyn Schöps in 1762–1764, and frescoes by Stanisław Brzozowski from 1753–1754. A sandstone figure of Saint John Nepomucene stands in front of the church.

The Cistercian abbey was founded in 1237 by Sandivius (Sendziwoj), cantor of Gniezno Cathedral, as a daughter house of Łekno. Conventuals came from the Rhineland until 1553, and in the 17th century the abbot served as the order's vicar general for Poland and Prussia. The abbey was dissolved in 1835 and the church became a parish church. In 1926 Cardinal Edmund Dalbor handed the complex to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

The church holds the painting of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Szymon Czechowicz from 1756 in the main altar, side altars carved by Augustyn Schöps in 1762-1764, and frescoes by Stanisław Brzozowski from 1753-1754. A crucifix from around 1500 and epitaphs of Ludwika and Rafał Gurowski are also inside. The monastery museum displays folk and religious art from African and Madagascan missions.

The church is easily accessible in the center of Obra and can be reached by following the main road through the village. Parking is available in the adjacent monastery courtyard, offering convenient access for visitors.

In the monastery garden stands a monument to Eugène de Mazenod, founder of the Oblates, and a memorial honours Blessed Father Józef Cebula, murdered at Mauthausen. A museum holds folk and religious art from the order's missions in Africa and Madagascar, and more African than Polish seminarians now train here.