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Altitude: 101 m. ASL.
Region:
Poland > mazowieckie
Cache type: Traditional
Size: Micro
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Date hidden: 25-02-2016
Date created: 26-02-2016
Date published: 26-02-2016
Last modification: 26-02-2016 
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From about 1888 in Wojciechowice village outside Ostrołęka town Russian military camp was created as Niżegrodzki camp. Around 1890 came here Russian 6 Głuchow regiment of dragoons. In connection with the expansion of the camp soon a few regiments stationed here, Niżegrod, Głuchow and 10 battalion of sappers.
Orthodox church was built on the needs of 6 Głuchow regiment of dragoons, and is devoted to the 25 (13) in October 1891. After the occupation by the Germans of Ostrołęka in July 1915 it was transformed into a military hospital, and later in the evangelical church.
May 26, 1918 he came here from Lviv Polish 5 regiment of Zasław uhlans and in the early 20th of XX century building was turned into a garrison church. During World War II the Germans organized magazine here. After World War II until 1957, the church was closed and in the years 1958 to 1961 has been renovated and modernized for the needs of Catholics. In 1975 he took over the parish priests Pallottines.
Currently, the church interior décor is contemporary, but the building is still interesting. The building is maed of red brick, faced as neighboring barracks, we see the characteristic of the eastern architecture "donkey ridges" - parabolic arches above the windows and on the bell tower and the bell tower decorated with a typical Russian wooden plant geometric motifs.
It was one of the 3 orthodox churches in Ostrołęka - the first wooden was built near site of the battle of 1831 and was demolished in the late nineteenth century and dedicated to the army, and the other urban-type built in the years 1901 to 1904 did not survive World War II.
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