Abstract
The study attempts to analyze the post-war sacral architecture in Poland based on the example of churches built after 1945 in the area of the present archdiocese of Częstochowa. It presents the history of sacral architecture, with particular emphasis on the years 1945–1989. It further discusses issues concerning the style of churches and problems related to structures with very large areas and cubature. Problems related to churches erected as “catechetical centers” and smaller filial churches are also mentioned. The presented issues concerning the chosen archdiocese may constitute a representative example of sacral architecture in Poland.
Highlights
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Conclusions struction, the Catholic church in Poland inherited a large number of hastily built churches
After extremely difficult of the Polish People’s for religious conThe fear of the possible revocation of years a permit, uncertainty about Republic further permits, the flourstruction, the Catholic church in Poland inherited a large number of hastily built ishing of the described grey area, and lack of planning related to any future catechetic churches
Summary
One method was to limit religious investments, in particular the construction of new churches, which made them become structures of political significance. This history proves that the course of religious architecture throughout the centuries is the outcome of theological, philosophical, cultural, and spatial thought but is determined and limited by political realities and negotiations with the authorities. It should be noted, that the situation of the Church in Poland was less constricted than in many other communist countries in central Europe at that time.
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