Basilica of Omni-mediatress of All Glories

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The Basilica of the Omni-mediatress of All Glories is a church in Niepokalanów, Poland. It was designed by the architect Zygmunt Gawlik from Kraków. It was built in 1948–1954. In June 1950 it became a parish church for a new parish in Niepokalanów. Three-nave church can accommodate up to three thousand people. The height of the church tower is 47 m. Three massive, double winged doors hold symbols of the most famous places of Marian apparitions around the world. In April 1980, Pope John Paul II granted the church the title of the basilica minor.

Plans and construction of the church: The first idea to build a new church in Niepokalanów (or at least a large chapel), appeared before the Second World War. In June 1933 the magazine "Rycerz Niepokalanej" ("The Knight of the Immaculate") wrote: It is necessary to build a new chapel, or – as some of the readers suggest – a church, because there is no room to accommodate all of us in this one. If it were only up to us, we would somehow manage to fit, but then the local population would no longer be able to attend our services. Unfortunately, at that time, the Franciscans did not have adequate funds to start the building. Construction plans...