Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Wola Rzędzińska

The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Wola Rzędzińska is a Neo-Gothic parish church in Tarnów municipality. It was built over more than twenty years, from 1911 to 1934.

Construction to Tarkowski's design

The first church in the village was built in 1903. The present church was raised on its site to a design by the Tarnów architect Augustyn Tarkowski. By 1918 a new chancel and side chapels had been built beside the old building, then the old church was demolished and the nave with the tower was built. During the Second World War the roof, the small bell turret and the stained glass were damaged, and the repair of the damage lasted until 1950.

Neo-Gothic with an altar from 1934

It is a single-nave church with a chancel closed on three sides and chapels in the form of a transept. The western façade is crowned by a tower with a pyramidal helmet. The interior has rib-and-cross and star vaults and Neo-Gothic furnishings. In the main altar from 1934 is a painting of Our Lady of Perpetual Help flanked by sculptures of St Peter and St Paul. The parish also mentions a pipe organ built in the 1990s.

Practical information

• Wola Rzędzińska lies in Tarnów County, a few kilometres from Tarnów.
• Masses and services: the current schedule is given on the parish website mbnp-wolarzedzinska.pl.
• In Tarnów you can see, among other things, the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.