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St. Adalbert Church in Jablonowo Pomorskie - a neo-Gothic Catholic church from 1860-1866.

A parish in Jablonowo Pomorskie has existed at least since the end of the 13th century. The first source information about an existing parish comes from 1445. Another wooden church, also wooden, erected in the last decades of the 17th century, burned down in 1785.

Since 1641 the village belonged to the Jesuit convent in Grudziadz, who ran a missionary station by the church. In 1757 by the decision of bishop W. S. Leski the parish was incorporated into the Jesuit convent and the order took over the patronage over the church. In 1773, after the dissolution of the Jesuit order the parish was taken over by diocesan priests, and after 1785, because of the lack of a temple Jablonowo parish was merged with the parish of Bursztynow for several decades.

Another wooden church was erected in 1816 when an independent parish was reactivated. At the end of 1850s it was demolished by order of Stefan Narzymski, who together with his wife Otolia founded a new brick building that was to complete the park and palace complex on the hill of Jablonowo.

The building was designed by August Stüler, possibly following the example of St. Maurice's Church in Angers, France, or St. Nicholas' Church in Hamburg, both of which have significant external similarities. Following the example of the West European Gothic, the building was supposed to create a maximum impression of lightness and loftiness with its spire-like tower and narrow windows. The neo-Gothic interior with the crypt and sarcophagus of the Narzymski couple is of a similar character. Apart from typical neo-Gothic side altars, the church contains sculptures of evangelists and older, baroque paintings of the Virgin Mary and St. Francis Xavier.

After World War II, the parish seat was moved to the post-evangelical church of Christ the King, and St. Adalbert's church fell to the rank of branch church and burial church, due to its proximity to the cemetery. In 1976, St. Adalbert's Church was established as a rector's church, as a separate pastoral center, and on January 1, 1978, it was given parish status again.