St. Roch Church

St. Roch Roman Catholic Church in Bialystok, Poland became constructed among 1927-1946 in a modernistic style, designed with the aid of famend Polish architect, professor Oskar Sosnowski. Its respectable call is Church - Monument of Poland’s Regained Independence and it stands on the Saint Roch hill on Lipowa Street in Bialystok, within the spot where a Roman Catholic cemetery, based in 1839, as soon as stood. The cemetery turned into profaned by means of the Russians all through the January Uprising.

The church was constructed on initiative of local provost, reverend Adam Abramowicz, who in April 1926 introduced opposition for the design of a new complex. 70 entries have been sent, with the layout of professor Sosnowski winning. The church is planned as an octahedron, with three masses set on one another. The first mass makes the primary part of the complicated, the extra are placed on the edges, making the attics.

Originally, the church turned into venerated to Mary, symbolized with a star, therefore Sosnowski used stars in his design, specifically in elements of the vault. After his deat, the construction changed into continued by some other architect, Stanislaw Bukowski. During the Soviet occupation of japanese Poland in the course of World War I, Soviet government planned to open a circus in the unfinished constructing.