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Kościół Wszystkich Świętych Babice

Church of All Saints Babice

Murowany kościół z wieżą i wolnostojącą dzwonnicą

Kanoniczna 6, 32-551 Babice Tourist region: Oświęcim i okolice

tel. +48 326134019
tel. +48 663933636
The parish of Babice was first mentioned in 1337 and the Church of All Saints in 1470.
The new church was founded in 1524 by Bishop Jan Konarski. After a fire in the 1760s, it was rebuilt in 1763 with the foundation of Bishop Kajetan Sołtyk. Between 1891 and 1898, the Church of All Saints in Babice underwent another major extension. The body of the church was lengthened and a couple of chapels were added, creating a kind of transept. The interior decoration and furnishings are in the Baroque and Rococo styles. One side altar contains paintings of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception and the Guardian Angel, painted by Wojciech Eljasz. The Stations of the Cross are also from his brush. The vicarage contains fragments of an early Baroque altarpiece made in 1662 by Mikołaj Przybysławowicz of Kraków. Also noteworthy is the Baroque font dating from the second half of the 18th century. The church's furnishings also include a procession float dating from around 1700, an early Baroque painting of St  Clement, two Baroque crucifixes, a Gothic monstrance, a Baroque chalice with the inscription 'Lipowiec' – [note: we give pauses –] from the chapel at the Lipowiec Castle, an early Baroque cross-shaped reliquary and a 19th-century incense censer. The church has a marble and stucco tombstone of Franciszek Łącki, who died in 1844. The Church of All Saints in Babice has a baroque, brick, two-storey bell tower.

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