Chapel of St Joseph at Wojtyczki's in Lipnica Mała

The Chapel of St Joseph, also called the chapel at Wojtyczki's, is a small stone building in Lipnica Mała, built around 1900 on the initiative of Fr Józef Wojtyczek as the priest's gift to the residents.

Architecture

The chapel refers to the Gothic style and resembles a miniature church. It has a rectangular plan, a main nave and a small porch, above which rises a turret with a conical roof covered with sheet metal. The rest of the roof is gabled. It was built of local stone.

Interior

The altar consists of two parts: a lower one, decorated with a floral motif with an inscription and supported on two columns, and a central part with an image of St Joseph. Statues of angels stand at the sides, and on the side walls hang two oleographs of the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

Practical information

• The chapel belongs to the parish of St Stephen in Lipnica Mała; services are held here from time to time, and on Holy Saturday Easter food is blessed.
• Opening hours of the interior are not given, and entry depends on the dates of services, so it is worth asking at the parish.
• In the area are the Orava Ethnographic Park in Zubrzyca Górna and the Krowiarki pass.