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St. Nicholas Church in Gąsawa - a wooden, larch, timber-frame church, built c. 1625 by the Canons Regular of Trzemeszno, located in Gąsawa.

During a recent renovation a unique in Wielkopolska Gothic arrangement of frame beams with later additions was discovered. The rickety roof truss. Around 1850, thanks to the decision of Prussian authorities, who did not give permission to pull down the old temple and build a brick church, it exists until today. After the dissolution of religious orders there was a lack of sponsors from Trzemeszno. The local community led by Father Teofil Kegel had enough resources to renovate the crumbling church - the roof truss was changed, shingles were replaced with slate, and beams called foxholes were added to straighten the walls. However, there was not enough money to restore the wall paintings, so they were covered with reeds and plastered. Their existence was forgotten for 150 years. In recent years, the church was threatened by another building disaster.

In 1998-1999 the roof trusses were changed, many elements of the foundation footing were replaced, and the building was newly boarded. During the last days of the two-year renovation, the condition of the plastered "foxholes" was checked. When the plaster was removed from one of them and the rotten beam was moved away from the wall, the figure of St. Augustine's painting on the log beam appeared. A visit to the Gniezno archives brought records of paintings on the ceilings and walls of the Gąsawa church. After several stages of removing the plaster from the ceiling and walls a set of wall paintings appeared - illusionistic, multi-layered, overlapping. A lot of symbolism. One of the layers was precisely dated to 1705-1706. Art historians and conservators call the large parts of the paintings tapestries. The paintings of the nave were restored from the funds of the Ministry of Culture in 2003.

The presbytery has been undergoing restoration work since July 2006. The 3 scenes depict St. Augustine, whose monastic rule was adopted by the Canons Regular. A number of saints: Catherine, Barbara, Stephen, Lawrence. The image of the Last Judgment, a rarity - the scene of the suffering Job, a symbolic juxtaposition of the witnesses of the Resurrection next to the Glorified Christ: Thomas, Peter, Magdalene and St. Paul. On the front wall - David and a painting of St. Cecilia. Under the choir there are poorly preserved scenes from the life of the church patron saint, St. Nicholas. On the choir there is an instrument from 1815 on the background of painted organ prospect. In the chancel, a tent as a background for the main altar, supported by angels; on the ceiling, a row of angels playing music, combining floral elements. In the center of the ceiling, the Madonna of the Apocalypse surrounded by the 4 Evangelists. On the tapestries scenes with open sinner, rent coin, Eucharist, granting of primacy. A number of patron saints: St. Adalbert, St. Casimir the King, St. Stanislaus Kostka painted just before his canonization.

The church has also preserved numerous Baroque sculptures in wood, five altars, a pulpit. On the beam there is a late Gothic crucifixion group. To our times also survived: late-Renaissance baptistery with Baroque elements and added in 1817 brick rotunda with a movable nativity scene.