Churches

Zakopane is devides into several parishes. There are over 30 churches, chapels and monasteries. On your hiking trip, you may find many little traditional rural shrines. Most of these objects have very inspiring old or modern designs. Their interior has often beendecorated by folk artisans or outstanding artists.

The main church in Zakopane is the neurmanesque church at ul. Krupowki 1. The Church is almost 100 years old. It ts the seat of the Holy Family Parish. The most precious part of the church is the Saint John the Baptist Chapel Which was designed by Stanislaw Witkiewicz, the founder of "Zakopiański Style" (style of Zakopane) in architecture.

The oldest piece of religiousarchitecture is the Old Cementary chapel, which was founded in 1800 by Pawel Gasienica. The present interior was designed in the 1950's by Antoni Kenar, an outstanding artist an educator (the Fine Arts High School in zakopane bears his name).

Near the old chapel there is also the Old Church, bulit in 1847 by a team of wood craftamen under the leadership of Sebastian Gasienica Sobczak.

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