Church from Tokarnia

Ołtarz główny i boczne w drewnianym kościele.

The church has an apparent barrel vault inside, with entablatures on the sides of the nave with flat ceiling sections. Between the chancel and the nave there is a chancel arch and a beam with a copy of the Moniak banner underneath (the 1705 original can be seen in the church in Zubrzyca). A richly decorated choir with bas-reliefs by a folk artist (who used to be a verger) Józef Wrona is located in the back wall of the nave. The Baroque organ and altars are notable original furnishings. The main 18th-century altar contains a copy of the painting depicting Our Lady of Snows of Tokarnia. The Baroque pulpit came from the church in Sulkowice that was demolished in the 1960s. Side altars have the features of the so-called folk Baroque. Priest Jan Mach who became the parish priest in Tokarnia is worth remembering here. It was thanks to him that an independent parish was established there and that the life of the community and Marian devotion revived, centred on the image of Our Lady of the Snows of Tokarnia, which was probably created at the end of the 17th century and modelled on the famous Byzantine icon worshipped in the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome.


 
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