The Dominican church on ul. Szewska i

Churches

Dominican Church (Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Consolation)

The first Dominican church was founded in 1244 by the Greater Poland dukes Przemysł I and Bolesław the Pious. The church received its present form at the beginning of the 18th century to a design by Jan Catenazzi. It is a shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary.

History

Parts of the early Gothic walls of the 13th century survive, with a portal in the west façade uncovered in 1923.

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary from the 15th century probably stands on the site of the former church of St Gothard. It received its present form in 1900–1901.

What to see

Baroque fittings of the 18th century, including the high altar of 1760 with a painting of Our Lady of the Rosary with St Dominic.

Mannerist choir stalls of 1620–1630 with scenes from the lives of St Dominic and St Hyacinth, and a Baroque pulpit of 1714–1716.

In the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, a venerated painting of Our Lady with the Child of 1631, crowned in 1968, and a Gothic bronze tomb slab from the Vischer workshop of Nuremberg.

Good to know

This is a working church. It cannot be visited during Mass and services, and you are asked to dress modestly and keep quiet.

Sources (in Polish)

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