Places of worship in Warsaw

This article is a list of places of worship in Warsaw, Poland, both current and historical. It includes Catholic, Uniate, Protestant and Orthodox churches, as well as synagogues and shrines of other denominations. Note that the list includes also places of worship that were destroyed some time in the past and are currently non-existent. Throughout its existence, Warsaw has been a multi-cultural city.[1] According to a census of 1901, out of 711,988 inhabitants there were 56.2% 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]

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

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

Christian

Catholic

Orthodox
  • Alexander Nevsky Cathedral at the Saxon Square (demolished between 1924 and 1926)
  • Chapel of the Holy Mary Mother of God at Paryska street
  • St. John Climacus's Orthodox Church at the Orthodox part of the Powązki Cemetery
  • St. Mary Magdalene's Cathedral in Praga
  • Church of the Archangel Michael in Warsaw
  • St. Peter and Paul's Church in Wołomin

Protestant

Eastern Catholic
  • Church of the Ascension of the Holy Mary of the Basilian monks at Miodowa street

Jewish
  • Great Synagogue (demolished in 1943)
  • Nożyk Family Synagogue, the only synagogue to be rebuilt after the war
  • Beit Warszawa Synagogue
  • Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue

See also

References
  1. Geert Mak (2008). In Europe: travels through the twentieth century. Pantheon Books. p. 427. ISBN 0-307-28057-8. 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). 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. Marian S. Mazgaj (2010). Church and State in Communist Poland: A History, 1944–1989. McFarland. p. 67. ISBN 0-7864-5904-2.
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