Podlaskie tourist guide - part II

Czeremcha Wieœ
• St. Cosmas and Damian Orthodox Church, 1816.
Czy¿e
• 16 th c. rural layout from the period of “pomiara
w³óczna” (16 th c. agrarian reform of land integration),
wooden buildings of late 19th/early
20 th c.,
• wooden cemetery St. Cosmas and Damian
Orthodox Church, 1812,
• two Orthodox cemeteries, oldest tombstones
from 1847 and 1872.
Dubicze Cerkiewne
• wooden Guardiance of Our Lady Orthodox
Church, 1946.
Hajnówka
• modern brick Holy Trinity Orthodox Church,
1982, Jerzy Grygorowicz design, interior porcelain
iconostasis and Dymitros Andropulas
polychromies,
• brick Elevation of Holy Cross and St. Stanislaus
the Bishop Church, 1957-1966,
• wooden houses of late 19 th /early 20 th c.,
wooden houses of the workers’ residential
area, 1934,
• Forest Narrow-gauge Railway Open-air Museum.
Kleszczele
• 16th c. urban layout, wooden buildings of late
19 th /early 20 th c.,
• brick Dormition of Our Lady Orthodox Church,
around 1870,
• wooden bell tower turned St. Nicholas Orthodox
Church, 1709,
• brick St. Zygmunt Burgundzki Church, 1907-1910,
• wooden railway station, around 1900.
Kuraszewo
• burial mound, 3 rd c.,
• wooden St. Antoni Peczerski Orthodox
Church, 1868,
• sacred spring with St. Machabeusz Brothers
Orthodox Chapel, 30s 20 th c.
Narewka
• 18 th c. urban layout, wooden buildings of late
19 th /early 20 th c.,
• brick St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 2 nd half
19 th c.,
• Jewish cemetery, 1 st half 19 th c.
Nowoberezowo
• wooden St. John the Theologian Orthodox
Church, around 1771,
• brick Ascension of the Lord Orthodox Church,
1873-1876,
• wooden cemetery Orthodox Church of Transfiguration
of the Lord, 1840,
• brick St. Alexander Nevsky Orthodox chapel,
1868,
• wooden St. George Orthodox chapel, 1888,
• wooden rural buildings of late 19t th /early 20 th c.
Saki
• St. Dimitri Orthodox Church, late 18 th c., with
wooden bell tower, 19 th c.,
• wooden Orthodox chapel by the “Krynoczka”
Spring, 19 th c.
Siemianówka
• brick St. George Orthodox Church, 18 th c.,
wooden presbytery, early 20 th c.,
• traditional wooden rural buildings.
Stare Lewkowo
• Wooden St. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church,
18 th c.,
• traditional wooden rural buildings.
Trzeœcianka
• 16 th c. rural layout from the period of “pomiara
w³óczna” (16 th c. agrarian reform of land integration),
traditional wooden rural buildings of
late 19 th /early 20 th c.,
• wooden St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox
Church, 1864-67,
• wooden cemetery Orthodox Church of Presentation
of Our Lady, 1 st half 19 th c.
KOLNO COUNTY
Grabowo
• brick St. John the Baptist Church, 1842-1845,
half-classicist, basilican, originally one-nave
with tower from 1937, expanded with side
naves and presbytery,
• classicist brick presbytery, 1859,
• manor complex, mid-19 th c., built for Antoni Waga.
Kolno
• Synagogue, 2 nd half 18 th c., Jewish cemetery,
around 1817,
• brick three-nave St. Anna Church, 1834-1835,
later expanded with neo-gothic chapels, interior
noe-roccoco main altar from 1893 and
baroque side altars,
• brick bell tower, 1862,
• mass grave of German and Russian soldiers
from World War I,
• grave of Polish soldiers from 1920.
Ma³y P³ock
• neo-baroque three-nave brick Church of the
Finding of the Holy Cross, 1881, main altar
features painting of Our Lady with Baby Jesus
from 1738,
• brick manor, post 1835, (present police station),
• early mediaeval settlement of 12 th c.
Stawiski
• Franciscan monastic complex, 17 th -19 th c.,
with late baroque brick three-nave basilican
Church of St. Anthony,
• former synagogue building, rebuilt in 1963,
present seat of fire service,
• Jewish cemetery from 1 st half 19 th c. and Jewish
cemetery from World War II,
• post office, 1 st half 19 th c.,
• manor park, 19 th c.
Turoœl
• wooden St. John the Baptist Church, 1871-
1873, with wooden bell tower, 30s 20 th c., and
wooden presbytery, 1911,
• wooden cemetery chapel, 18 th /19 th c.,
• wooden post mill, 19 th c.
£OM¯A COUNTY
Drozdowo
• manor complex, 18 th -19 th c., including Lutos-
³awski manor from 19 th c. (present seat of Natural
History Museum with additional exhibitions
on the Lutos³awski Family and Roman
Dmowski), manor park and the Lutos³awski
Family tomb chapel from 1870,
• brick St. John Church, 1868-1878,
• presbytery from 1895, originally neo-romanesque.
Jedwabne
• St. Jacob Church, 1926-1935, neo-baroque,
three-nave, with transept and two-tower façade,
• late 19 th c. presbytery, neo-classicist,
• classicist manor from 2 nd half 18 th c., rebuilt in
1959 (present Culture Centre) with manor park,
• monument to Jews executed in 1941.
£om¿a
• Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel and
St. John the Baptist, 15 th -16 th c., late gothic,
pseudo-basilican, three-nave, 1504-26, with
bell tower. Rebuilt around 1588 and in 1691-92
in baroque style. Restored after war damage
in 1953-56. Barrel-stellar main nave vault, side
naves and chapel feature diamond vaults.
Chapel of Our Lady of Rosary with altar from
mid-18 th c. with painting of Our Lady with
Baby Jesus from 16 th c. Renaissance tombs
of £om¿a stewards. Rococo stuccos in main
nave. North nave features baroque altar from
mid-18 th c. Mannerist altars from 17 th c. Paintings
and sculptures from 16 th -18 th c.,
• fort IV complex 526, (remains of land fortifications
from 19 th c.),
• Capuchin Monastery, 1770-1772 with Our Lady
of Sorrows Church, 1781-1798, expanded in
1856-58. One-nave church with two crypts.
Late baroque altars, 1790-94. Neo-gothic epitaphs
from 1 st half 19 th c. Multi-storied monastery
with outbuildings from 19 th /20 th c. with
annexed St. Fidelis College from 1925 (since
1945 public school),
• cemetery complex with fencing and gates, 1801,
• Roman-Catholic cemetery with the Œmiarowski
Family chapel (of Holy Cross), 1838,
gravedigger’s house, 1853, bell tower, 1866,
• Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery (evangelical
chapel, 1844)
• Orthodox cemetery, Orthodox chapel, 1906,
• bishops’ palace, 1925,
• church and nunnery of Benedictine nuns,
1857-1863, brick church, 1857-63, restored
in 1946-53 after war damage, three-nave,
pseudo-hall. Baroque painting of Our Lady
of Snow from 1630 in side altar. Nunnery
partly brick (western wing) from 1859, partly
wooden,
• fomer Orthodox Church, present Roman-Catholic
Church of Assumption of Our Lady, 1877,
• former governor’s palace, 1866,
• town hall, 1822-1823,
• former post office building, 1843,
• barrack complex, late 19 th c.,
• tenement houses and public buildings, 19 th
c./early 20 th c.,
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Places of historic interest