Kościół pw. św. Jakuba

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St. Jacob's Church in Niechanów - a wooden temple built in 1776 in the center of Niechanów, Gniezno County, on Różana Street.

After modernization in 1908 it gained a brick part of the nave in neo-baroque style according to the project of architect L. Lutsch, and a tower. The construction was financed by Stanislaw Zoltowski. The wooden part is covered with shingles. The church equipment includes the main altar in the late Baroque style, created in the second half of the eighteenth century, Rococo: two side altars, pulpit supported by a kneeling angel, baptismal font, benches and confessional from the second half of the eighteenth century, as well as paintings and sculptures created in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Coordinates: 52°27'48"N, 17°40'44"E

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