Places of worship in Warsaw

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St. Alexander's Church prior to destruction in World War II, c. 1890–1900.

This article is a list of places of worship in

Catholics, 35.7% Jews, 5% Greek orthodox Christians and 2.8% Protestants.[2] Eight years later, in 1909, there were 281,754 Jews (36.9%), 18,189 Protestants (2.4%) and 2,818 Mariavites (0.4%).[3] This led to construction of hundreds of places of religious worship in all parts of the town. Most of them were destroyed in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After the war the new communist authorities of Poland discouraged church construction and only a small number of them were rebuilt.[4]

The cathedrals and other main places of worship are bolded, non-existent churches are listed in italics.

Christian

Catholic

Orthodox

Protestant

Eastern Catholic

Jewish

Muslim

  • Islamic Cultural Centre in Ochota
  • Mosque in Wilanów

Hindu

  • Hindu Bhawan Temple
  • Red Sues Temple in Sulejowek

See also

References

  1. . Today Warsaw is a monocultural city, which is some people's ideal. But before 1939 it was a typically multicultural society. Those were the city's most productive years. We lost that multicultural character during the war.
  2. ^ Hermann Julius Meyer (1909). Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Vol. 20 (6 ed.). Leipzig and Vienna. p. 388.
  3. ^ Erich Zechlin (1916). Die Bevölkerungs- und Grundbesitzverteilung im Zartum Polen (The distribution of population and property in tsaristic Poland) (in German). Reimer, Berlin. pp. 82–83.
  4. .