St. Joseph's Church is a 17th-century

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church in

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. The building's construction was founded by Katarzyna from Kretków Sanguszkowa. Her portrait is displayed inside the church. The church was built between 1635 and 1644. The building has the

Lublin Renaissance The Lublin Renaissance was an architectural style developed in the Lublin region of Poland at the end of the 16th century. History The Lublin region has a fine architectural heritage. It was at the end of the 16th century that the first fully ...

architectural style. The building's façade has two figures, St. Teresa of Ávila's and St. John of the Cross. The church has a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

with a

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. The church, together with the abbey, was raised by the

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