Saint Boniface church in Wrocław, Roman Catholic church in Wrocław, Poland.
Saint Boniface church is a neo-Romanesque basilica of red brick built in 1897–1898 on Nadodrze. Its interior has eight bays: two vestibules, five in the naves and a lower, narrower presbytery bay closed by a semicircular apse. A baptismal chapel stands on the south side, a sacristy on the north, and above the presbytery bay rises a tower massif with two octagonal upper towers capped by conical roofs.
Construction began in 1897 during a period of religious building expansion in Wrocław's growing districts. The church emerged when the city was expanding rapidly and new communities were forming.
The parish belongs to the Wrocław Cathedral deanery of the Archdiocese of Wrocław. Its name recalls Saint Boniface, the missionary; construction was financed by Cardinal Georg Kopp, Bishop of Wrocław, and the Saint Boniface Association from Paderborn, a German Catholic society that supported churches abroad.
The church stands on the Nadodrze housing estate, north of the old town centre, at the coordinates 51.12297, 17.02906. The main entrance is on the south side, where the baptismal chapel adjoins the nave; the sacristy is on the north side. The adjacent rectory, entered in the provincial register of monuments in 1991, stands next to the church.
The 32-stop organ was built in 1885 by the Friebe firm, before the church itself was completed, and was rebuilt in the 20th century by Józef Cynar and Czesław Chrobak. It keeps pneumatic action for both keys and stops. The two upper octagonal towers with conical helm roofs crown the tower mass above the presbytery bay.
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