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The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (russian: костёл во имя Успения Пресвятой Девы Марии) also called the ''Polish Church'', it is a Catholic church in Gothic style located in
Irkutsk
Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...
, in Siberia, Russia.Литвинов Б. Т. Религиозные сооружения неправославных культов // Памятники истории и культуры Иркутска. — Иркутск: Вост.-Сиб. кн. изд-во, 1993. — С. 413—416. — 448 с. — Тираж 5 000 экз. —
A first small wooden church and catholic was built in 1825 in Irkutsk by Catholic settlers. It was enlarged in 1855, but burned down in the great fire of the city in July 1879. A new brick structure is built by the Polish community between 1881 and 1883 dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Its neo-Gothic style differs from the Orthodox churches in the shape of the dome, like The Savior, which is nearby. It was done according to the plans of the Polish architect Jan Tamulewicz and the interior was decorated by Wojciech Koperski. The altarpiece is from 1868. A new harmonium was brought from the United States in 1896.
See also
* Roman Catholicism in Russia *Our Lady of the Assumption
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it in 1950 in his apostolic constitution ''Munificentissimus Deus'' as follows:
We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by Go ...
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Church Polish diaspora in Siberia Buildings and structures in Irkutsk Roman Catholic churches completed in 1825 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Russia Cultural heritage monuments in Irkutsk Oblast