Travel Guide
Church of St Peter and Paul
The Church of St Peter and Paul is a Gothic, brick, arranged in a three-nave church of St. Indoor. The Church of St Peter and Paul is one of the most impressive church in Gdansk. It has a length of 62 meters and width of 26 meters. It was built in the district of Old Suburb in the years 1393-1516.
Originally Roman Catholic, in the sixteenth century, was taken over first by the Lutherans, Calvinists and then by serving them almost until the end of World War II, the duration of which was almost completely destroyed. For Roman Catholics, he returned in 1958 and since that time almost takes the constant rebuilding. Watching from outside the church should pay special attention to crowning him the sixteenth century, late Gothic tower with a height of about 40 meters. As the only in Gdansk, he has stepped peaks. Undoubtedly the biggest attraction of the temple is located in the main altar, surrounded by statues of patron saints of the Tabernacle, a miraculous image of Our Lady of Grace - dating from the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and brought back to Gdansk after the war with Stanislavov by Armenians. Image - a replica of Czestochowa, the fact that no scarring on the face of the Virgin Mary - in 1937 was crowned by the pope. It is interesting that since 1958, along with placing the image in the Temple, the Church of St. Peter and Paul no longer serve only to Catholics, and is also used by the Armenian-Catholic rite.
[Old Suburb]
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