Carmelite Church, Przemyśl
The Carmelite Church of St. Theresa is a late-Renaissance church in the city of Przemyśl, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship in southern Poland. History Beginnings The Catholic order of Carmelites came to Przemyśl in 1620. Their church was founded by the duke of Podolia, Michał Krasicki, and constructed in the years 1627-1631 Juraj BuzalkaNation and religion: the politics of commemorating in south-east Poland 2007, Lit Verlag, 2007, pp. 91-94 most probably according to the design of Galleazzo Appiani. The interior is explicitly Baroque, including a pulpit with a ship-like shape. Partitions In 1772 after the First Partition of Poland the city fell under Habsburg monarchy, Austrian rule, which by a decree of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II liquidated the order in 1784. The Austrian authorities also blocked the ongoing construction of a Greek Catholic Cathedral (an already erected belfry was later turned into a clock tower) and instead offered the town's Ukrainians, Ukrain ...
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