Podlaskie tourist guide - part II

• Monuments – to Polish pilots killed in 1939,
grave of unknown soldier, obelisk commemorating
nine-hundredth anniversary of foundation
of Drohiczyn.
Dziadkowice
• Parish church complex of the Holy Trinity
which includes: classicist brick church, 1801-
05, brick bell tower, 1849, wooden presbytery,
2 nd half of 19 th c.,
• wooden cemetery chapel of St. Anna, 1826,
• wooden buildings, 1 st half 20 th c.
Do³ubowo
• 17 th c. urban layout,
• brick church of St. Peter and Paul the Apostles,
• wooden manor, 1912, with brick outbuildings
and park, late 19 th c.,
• wooden buildings, late 19 th c. and 1 st half 20 th c.
Grabarka
• Orthodox Monastic Complex (monastery hill
with surrounding crosses), 18 th – 20 th c., which
includes: wooden Orthodox Church of Transfigutation
of the Lord built in place of former
18 th c. Orthodox church burnt down in the fire
of 1990, St. Martha Monastery, cemetery. Most
important place of Polish Orthodox Church,
holding main celebrations on August, 19 th .
Grodzisk
• wooden church (originally Greco-Catholic) of
the Assumption of Our Lady, 2 nd half 17 th c.,
rebuilt in 18 th c. and in 1923,
• 17 th c. urban layout,
• brick Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, 1864,
• brick chapel, 18 th c.,
• brick manor, 1924,
• early mediaeval settlement in manor park.
Mielnik
• ruins of gothic 16 th c. Holy Trinity Church,
burnt down in 1915,
• 11 th -12 th c. early mediaeval settlement on
Góra Zamkowa (Castle Hill), great panorama
on the Bug River Valley,
• brick presbytery, 18 th c.,
• brick Transfiguration of the Lord Church,
1913-1920,
• brick Orthodox Church of Our Lady the Purest,
1825, originally Uniate, nowadays Orthodox,
• wooden cemetery Orthodox Church of Our
Lady the Caring, around 1770,
• brick synagogue, 1 st half 19 th c., nowadays a
house and gallery.
Milejczyce
• Wooden framework St. Stanislaus Church,
around 1650, interior baroque altars, wooden
cemetery bell tower, 1740,
• wooden framework three-part Orthodox
Church of St. Barbara, 1899-1900,
• wooden framework cemetery Orthodox
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker,
around 1820,
• brick synagogue, 1927,
• wooden buildings, 2 nd half 19 th /1 st half 20 th c.
Mi³kowice Maæki
• wooden St. Roch Church, 1811,
• wooden bell tower, 2 nd half 19 th c.,
• wooden chapel with painting of St. Roch built
at the miraculous spring.
Niemirów
• 17 th c. urban layout,
• St. Stanislaus the Bishop Church, 1780-1790,
interior stucco altars and sculptures,
• brick bell-tower gate and fencing, 1823,
• settlement on castle hill surrounded by numerous
burial mounds,
• war shelters of the Brest Fortified Region,
1940-1941.
Ostro¿any
• wooden Birth of Our Lady Church, 1758, inside
miraculous painting of Our Lady of Ostro-
¿any, boat-shaped pulpit,
• bell tower, 1816,
• brick inn, 2 nd half 19 th c.,
• post-manor complex with preserved outbuildings
and landscape park.
Siemiatycze
• Monastery Complex of the Missionaries (17 th -
19 th c.) which includes: rennaisance-baroque
church of the Assumption of Our Lady, 1625-
1638, bell tower, late baroque monastery
building (present seat of social welfare centre),
fencing with gate and Stations of the
Cross, gate gallery,
• Orthodox Church Complex which includes:
brick Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul the
Apostles, 1866, cemetery Orthodox Church,
caretaker’s lodge, fencing with three gates,
• synagogue, 1795, (present seat of Culture
Centre),
• former Talmudic house, 1893,
• cemetery complex:
- Roman-Catholic cemetery,
- wooden cemetery church of St. Anna, 1826-
1827,
- evangelical cemetery, 18 th /19 th c., with chapel,
nowadays Orthodox,
- cemetery chapel,
- cemetery fencing,
• wooden presbytery Orthodox from 1835,
• ruins of Anna Jab³onowska’s palace – orangery
from 2 nd half 18 th c., sphinx sculptures and
fragments of stone fencing (present seat of
School of Music),
• tile workshop complex, late 19 th c.
Sobiatyno
• wooden cemetery Orthodox Church of St. Peter
and Paul, 17 th /18 th c.
SOKÓ£KA COUNTY
Bohoniki
• wooden framework mosque, 2 nd half 19 th c.,
hip-roofed with a spire, built on a central plan,
• Tatar cemetery, 17 th c. and 19 th c.,
• boulder commemorating three-hundredth anniversary
of Tatar settlement,
• wooden village buildings, late 19 th / early 20 th c.
D¹browa Bia³ostocka
• 18 th c. urban layout with remains of original
radial layout,
• neo-romanesque St. Stanislaus the Bishop
Church, 1897-1905.
Janów
• brick St. Gearoge Church, 1899-1904,
• wooden presbytery (1905) and chapel (1904).
Korycin
• brick church of the Elevation and Finding of
the Holy Cross, 1899-1905, two towers in the
façade, stone bell tower, fencing with gate
and wooden chapels, remains of presbytery
park.
Kruszyniany
• oldest in Poland wooden mosque, late 18 th c.,
two spires, interiors typical of Muslim temples,
narby boulder commemorating three-hundredth
anniversary of Tatar settlement in this
area,
• Tatar cemetery with oldest tombstone from
late 17 th c.,
• 16 th c. rural layout from the period of “pomiara
w³óczna” (16 th c. agrarian reform of land
integration).
Krynki
• 16 th -18 th c. urban layout with 12 streets radiating
from the main square,
• brick Orthodox Church of the Birth of Our
Lady, 1864,
• wooden Orthodox cemetery chapel of St. Anthony,
mid-18 th c.;
• bell tower, mid-18 th c.,
• brick St. Anna Church, 1907-1913, baroque
interiors, baroque gate and bell tower,
• brick synagogue, around 1850,
• brick synagogue, 2 nd half 19 th c.,
• ruins of so-called Great Synagogue, 1756,
made of stone, blown up in 1944, totally destroyed
in 1971,
• largest Jewish cemetery in Podlaskie, 1622,
about 3000 preserved tombstones;
• former hospital complex, present seat of social
welfare centre, around 1880.
Nietupa
• wooden water mill, 2 nd half 19 th c.
Nowy Dwór
• 16 th c. urban layout,
• St. John the Baptist Church, 1547, later repeatedly
rebuilt,
• bell tower, 2 nd half 18 th c.,
• wooden houses, late 19 th / early 20 th c.
Paw³owicze
• palace complex with brick palace of the
Wo³³owicz Family, 1610,
• two brick outbuildings, late 18 th c.,
• brick barn, 1 st half 19 th c.,
• park, late 18 th c.
Ró¿anystok
• Post-Dominican monastic complex, at present
Salesian and Agricultural School Complex.
Established in mid-17 th c. by the Tyszkiewicz
Family, confiscated by Russians as a
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Places of historic interest