Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lodz

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a temple located on Koscielny Square in Lodz. It is the seat of the parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the oldest and for almost five hundred years the only Catholic community in Lodz. It belongs to the network of Lenten station churches in Lodz. The church was built in the years 1887–1897 on the site of a wooden church of the same name, which was moved to the cemetery square at 22 Ogrodowa Street (after the transfer, it was named after St. Joseph). The temple in the Vistula-Baltic style was designed by Konstanty Wojciechowski, and almost half of the costs of its construction and furnishing were covered by Lodz manufacturers of various denominations who held high positions in the 19th-century textile industry. In the church crypt rests the coffin with the remains of the Servant of God Stanisława Leszczynska, and in the church area there is a stone tombstone of Maciej Wyszynski from 1822, which is the only trace of the existence of an Old Town cemetery in this place and the oldest stone tombstone monument in Lodz.