ŁUKOWICA - Church of St. Andrew the Apostle
IN ŁUKOWICA
The church was erected in a log construction, except for a tower with a pole structure added later. The tower was covered with a Baroque helmet. The outer walls are covered with vertical boards. The temple is oriented, tripartite – with a wider nave and narrower multilateral chancel. On both sides of the chancel there are symmetrical extensions with an interesting octagonal shape. There is a sacristy in one of them, and a chapel in the other one.
In 1720 the church was consecrated. The church has since been renovated several times. The present appearance came after the reconstruction in the 1870s. Inside the temple there is the main altar from the end of the 17th century with the image of St. Andrew and the figure of the Virgin Mary. On the sides, in the nave, there are two late Baroque side altars: the left is dedicated to St. Teresa of Baby Jesus and the right one is devoted to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The altar in the chapel is decorated with a picture of St. Archangel Michael from the 18th century. A special attention should be given to the ceiling decorated with polychrome from the 19th century and a Baroque stone baptismal font in the nave from 1693. In the past there was a beautiful sculpture of the Mother of God with the Child from the 14th century but it was robbed during the Second World War..
Currently the parish church of Łukowica is the temple of Our Lady of Help to the Faithful consecrated and put into use in 1995. The wooden Baroque church of St. Andrew acts as an auxiliary church now.
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ŁUKOWICA - Church of St. Andrew the Apostle
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