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Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop (Kościół św. Stanisława Biskupa)

ul. Zdrojowa 59, Rymanów-Zdrój, Podkarpackie

A spa chapel that took a world war and seventeen years to finish, and that no local resident was allowed to enter until 1939.

📅 1926–present🏛️ ChurchStill hereBuilt 1926
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Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop (Kościół św. Stanisława Biskupa), ul. Zdrojowa 59, Rymanów-Zdrój, Podkarpackie
Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop, Rymanów-Zdrój (2018) · Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

A brick Neo-Gothic church funded by Anna Potocka and Count Jan Potocki, replacing an earlier wooden chapel that Anna had raised on the right bank of the Tabor. Construction began before the First World War, was halted by it, and finished only in 1926, when Bishop Karol Józef Fischer consecrated the building. Until 1939 it was reserved for spa guests; local residents of Rymanów-Zdrój and the nearby villages were not permitted to use it. The war ended that restriction, and the church began serving the whole population. Fr. Franciszek Penar arrived in 1957 and built up parish life, and on 3 February 1974 Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk formally erected the parish. The building was substantially enlarged between 1999 and 2004 and reconsecrated by Archbishop Józef Michalik on 7 November 2004.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

For thirteen years the church was legally off-limits to the people who lived around it.
It did not become a parish until 1974, almost fifty years after consecration.
Its main altar shows a crucifix emerging from a grapevine; it holds relics of St Faustina Kowalska and John Paul II.

Connected places

Jewish Cemetery and Ohels of the Tzaddikim (Cmentarz żydowski w Rymanowie)

Rymanów, Podkarpackie
First World War

"Sokół" Gymnastic Society Hall (Dom "Sokoła")

Rymanów, Podkarpackie
Count Jan Potocki

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Nearby history

The Guest House (Dworzec Gościnny)

Park Zdrojowy · 102 m away
The resort's grandest building survived two world wars, then burned in peacetime — torched in December 1946.

Rymanów-Zdrój Spa (Uzdrowisko Rymanów-Zdrój)

ul. Parkowa 8 · 110 m away
A countess spent years hunting for mineral water on her own land, and the springs she found in 1876 built an entire town

Villa Opatrzność (Willa Opatrzność)

ul. Zdrojowa 55 · 177 m away
One of the resort's first wooden villas spent two years as the seat of an entire Greek Catholic church administration.

Villa Leliwa (Willa Leliwa)

ul. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego 2 · 354 m away
Poland's greatest Art Nouveau painter is said to have frescoed a sunflower in its attic, and wartime medics painted over

Jewish Cemetery and Ohels of the Tzaddikim (Cmentarz żydowski w Rymanowie)

ul. Kalwaria · 2.9 km away
Hasidim still travel from Israel and New York to a hillside above Rymanów to pray at the tomb of a rebbe who died in 181

Kino Sokół and Regional Historical Chamber (Kino "Sokół" / Regionalna Izba Historyczna)

ul. Grunwaldzka 11 · 3.4 km away
Seventy years as a cinema under three names — the last of which quietly undid a communist ban.

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