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Church of Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Adalbert

Local name: Kościół Matki Boskiej Bolesnej i św. Wojciecha

Church of Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint. Wojciech, also called the "Church on the Hill", stands in the place where according to legend, Saint Wojciech was to celebrate mass during his journey from the Czech Republic. It is a Gothic temple with a neo-Roman facade and baroque interior. In the main nave you can see the Gloria of the Blessed Virgin Mary brought from Stanisławów after the Second World War (today's Ivano-Frankivsk).

According to records, the first church on Górka stood about 1000 years. It was a small wooden temple, which was gradually expanded. At the beginning of the 15th century, a Gothic church was built with high windows and buttresses. His presbytery is today hidden behind a much later neo-Renaissance facade from the nineteenth century.

The interior of the church is in the Baroque style. In the presbytery there is the main altar with a picture depicting the Glory of Saint Adalbert. Relics of the Prague Bishop have been kept here since 2005. In the basement of the church, in the crypts lie the Dominicans, who for several centuries used the temple, bishop Jan Kropidło and blessed Władysław Herman.

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    Plac Kopernika 1245-040 Opole , Poland