Basilica On The Holy Mountain, Głogówko
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Basilica on the Holy Mountain is a historic Oratorian,
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minor basilica Basilicas are Catholic church buildings that have a designation, conferring special privileges, given by the Pope. Basilicas are distinguished for ceremonial purposes from other churches. The building need not be a basilica in the architectura ...
in Głogówko, Poland. The shrine is modelled on the Venetian
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. It is located on a raised
moraine A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and Rock (geology), rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a gla ...
known as Holy Mountain (''Święta Góra'') near
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, located to its north. In 2008, the basilica was entered onto the List of Historic Monuments of
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