A modernist school church from 1932-1937 in Bochnia, with a three-nave interior and stained glass from 1936.
The Church of St Stanislaus Kostka in Bochnia is a school church belonging to the parish of St Nicholas the Bishop. It was built in 1932-1937 and is an example of modernist architecture.
The church was built on the initiative of Fr Alojzy Nalepa, with the strong involvement of the then headmaster of the Bochnia grammar school, Franciszek Słuszkiewicz. The design was made by the architects Wacław Nowakowski and Ludmił Gyunkovich, and the blessing took place in 1937.
The building is made of brick and stone. It has three naves and an apse-shaped chancel. The eastern façade has two storeys: the lower one of stone, with an entrance in the form of three round arcades, and the upper one of brick, with blind windows and a raised bell tower. The stained glass from 1936 was designed by Henryk Nostitz-Jackowski and made by the Poznań workshop Polichromia. In the apse are Eucharistic symbols, in the south nave a scene of the Annunciation, and in the windows behind the altars St Casimir the Prince and St Kinga. The parish indulgence feast is celebrated on the first Sunday after the feast of St Stanislaus Kostka, 18 September. It is about 600 m from here to the Bochnia Salt Mine.
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