Camaldolese Church, Warsaw

The King of Poland Władysław IV Vasa founded the first church in Bielański Forest as a vote of gratitude for royal election the crown and winning in the Smolensk campaign.

In 1669–1710 and 1733–1755 the church was rebuilt, the founders of the project were Polish kings John II Casimir and Michael I.

After the fall of the January Uprising in 1864, Tsarist occupation authorities liquidated all Camaldoles monasteries with the exception of the Warsaw.

Nowadays the church and the hermitage huts are preserved in their original state.

Standing in front of the facade of the church we are exactly on the axis of the monastic complex.

According to Mariusz Karpowicz the church was designed by Italian architect Isidoro Affaitati.

The designer of that late Baroque works could be a Roman architect Gaetano Chiaveri.

The facade is triaxle – the central part is a little forward of and topped with a tympanum, enclosed in a pair of composite pilasters and columns.

Consistency adds fact that the whole interior has part of Corinthian style for example columns.