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The Sacred Heart Church

Elk, Warmian Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
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About The Sacred Heart Church

The Sacred Heart Church in Elk dates from the mid 1920s and was until 1945 the Protestant area church of the East Prussian region town. Today it is the second most seasoned of eleven Catholic places of worship in the city in the eastern Mazury in Poland Warmia-Mazury. The main church in Lyck was worked in 1550 at the prompting of the Protestant Bishop of Pomesania Paul Speratus. It consumed in 1651, her successor working in the triumph by the Tartars in 1656 from.
Another congregation building followed in 1688, yet in 1837 was dilapidated to the point that it must be evacuated. In the years 1847 to 1850 then a neo-Gothic block church was fabricated , still impacted by the Schinkel School . Anyway was the demolition by the Russian military in the First World War to the casualty. Under usage of leftovers of this congregation another building was worked from 1920 to 1925 - with clear alludes to the religious design .
The three-nave inside was encompassed by exhibitions. The roof in the center was angled, level on the sides. In the sacred place specialty was around then an enormous star vault. The basic platform sacrificial table was delegated on the sides by two holy messenger figures. In 1925, the Hannover workshop Furtwangler and Hammer made the organ. The building came great through World War II and was completely remodeled in 1956. As of now since 1945 it had been taken by the Catholic Church being used and changed inside the changed ritualistic utilize as needs be.
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