Bydgoszcz Cathedral

The interior of the Bydgoszcz parish church surprises with colors, making it different from other churches. A resplendent picture is created by rich polychromes from the 1930s, and decorated with polychrome 17th-century main altar with a late-Gothic painting "Mother of God with a Rose". In the church visitors can also admire the five side altars, many paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, the chapel of Saint Cross with a wrought, Baroque grate, late Renaissance baptismal font, pulpit, stalls, as well as tombstones and epitaphs.

Most of the sacral artworks inside the temple are dated back to the 17th century, however the cathedral itself is much older because it was built in years 1466-1502, in a place of another church that had been burnt by the Teutonic Knights. The founder of the church was Jan Kościelecki, the voivode of Inowrocław, who also gave the church a gift - painting "Mother of God with a Rose", also known as the "Mother of God of Beautiful Love".

The late-Gothic parish church is one of the most significant monuments in Bydgoszcz, and although it was reconstructed, it still retains the original character and probably also fragments of the walls of the previous church from the beginning of the 15th century.