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Church of St. Anthony of Padua

Local name: Kościół św. Antoniego Padewskiego

Church of Sts. Antoni Padewski oo. Franciscans (Reformers) is a baroque structure with a simple façade. The first church in this place was founded by Zygmunt III Vasa as a votive gratitude for the capture of Smolensk in 1611. After the destruction of a wooden church during the Swedish Flood, the same place was built by the castle of Stanisław Leszczyc-Skaryszewski in the years 1668-1680. . Frequent guests of the church were King Jan III Sobieski and August III Sas. In 1766, the convent was hiding in Italy Giacomo Casanova. The church was partially destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising, and then rebuilt in the 1950s. In the building you can see a grating lattice and cloisters from the eighteenth century, chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the 17th century, chapel Św. Families from the first half of the 19th century, picture of mourning from the 17th century, paintings of Sts. Antoni and St. Franciszka by Rafał Hadziewicz, epitaphs of the wife of Marshal of the court of Jerzy Mniszch and plaques commemorating the soldiers killed during the Second World War and the Warsaw Uprising.

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Senatorska 3100-099 Warsaw , Poland