page_title: Poor Clares' Church, Bydgoszcz
section_title: Since 1939
hierarchical_section_title: Poor Clares' Church, Bydgoszcz / History / Since 1939
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Bydgoszcz, kościół klasztorny klarysek, ob. par. p.w. Matki Boskiej Wniebowziętej, 1582 This is a photo of a monument in Poland identified by the ID 601229
context_page_description: The Church of the Poor Clares dedicated to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an historical church in Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
context_section_description: At the outbreak of World War II the church was still available for worship, but in March 1941, Nazi occupying forces closed the building. Overall restoration work was undertaken in 1950, and this still sets the appearance of today's church.
  This work included, inter alia, partial roofing, renovation of façade near the summit, changes to the window openings and veneering of the facade. During those works a sensational discovery has been made under the floor of the nave, where a grave Megalith with urns from 500 BC has been unearthed. 
  In 1952, while scraping out internal plaster ], relics of four embedded crosses have been revealed in the chancel (Polish: Zacheuszek), probably from the time of the first consecration of the church in 1645. In 1952 was also transferred the gravestone of Sophia Smoszewska, the first abbess, from the porch to the northern chancel.
  In 1954, a 12-scaled organ, from one of the Protestant temples, has replaced the former one dating from the 1920s, which has been moved to Osiek church. From 1953 to 1954, several conservation works have been carried out under the supervision of professor Leonard Torwirt from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, focusing on:
  Polychromed roof of the nave,
  Tower stairs leading to the chancel gallery,
  Painting Jude the Apostle by brush Edward Kwiatkowski.
  In 1955, on an arch wall has been unveiled a preserved 17th-century fresco, as well as bricked oculi on the northern and southern walls of the naves, which have restored two years later.
  An important step of the refurbishing has been, in 1955, to get back the original 17th-century main altar from Sypniewo. Its return was preceded by many years of efforts from the rector of the church, brother Gierzyński, supported by the written consent of Primate of Poland Stefan Wyszynski. It has been inserted back to its original place, where was originally displayed the painting Coronation of the Virgin with attires of Poor Clares. However, the picture was so decayed that even before the altar restitution,it has been replaced by the image of the "Madonna Apocalyptic" (ca. 1900). Among the other artefacts returned to the church were the forged iron grille separating the chancel from the nave, dating back to the secularization of the church, and temporarily installed on the gate of Starofarny Cemetery in Bydgoszcz and the grating of the sacristy of priests (later the chapel of St. Teresa, and now chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa).
  In 1957, stained glass was installed in the chancel, following the design of Zdzislaw Kuligowski. 1958 repairs and restoration treatments completed the post-war process of overall renovation of the church. In the mid-1960s the old galvanized steel cover of the spire was replaced and in the nave was fixed a Majolica Stations of the Cross.
  In 1971, due to the need to modernize the streets in downtown Bydgoszcz, an option discussed was shifting the church of St. Clare to the place of the building of the monastery, which would be demolished. But another solution came out, which guaranteed the preservation of both monuments
  A restoration work on polychromed ceiling and wall paintings has been performed from 1987 to 1989, and another in the early 1990s. In 1991 began the restoration work of the main altar, and the plaster covering of the chancel walls and vaults, removing old stucco from the 1920s and revealing original primary colors.
caption: View from Theatre Square
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