St Mary's Church (Gdańsk)

Poland / Pomorskie / Gdansk / Gdańsk / ul. Podkramarska
 basilica, Gothic (architecture), heritage, Brick Gothic (architecture), listed building / architectural heritage, Roman Catholic church
St. Mary's Church (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka, German: Marienkirche) or, properly, Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Gdańsku) is a Catholic church in Gdańsk, Poland; it is the largest brick church in the world (the highest being St. Martin's Church, Landshut, Germany), and one of the largest Brick Gothic buildings in Europe. Until 1945 it was the biggest Evangelical Lutheran church in the world. It is 105.5 m long, and the nave is 66 m wide. Inside the church is room for 25,000 people. It is an aisled hall church with a transept. It is a co-cathedral in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gdańsk, along with the main cathedral for the Archdiocese, the Bazylika archikatedralna w Gdańsku-Oliwie. (Basilica-Cathedral of Gdańsk-Oliwa).
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary's_Church,_Gdańsk
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Coordinates:   54°20'59"N   18°39'10"E
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  • Gdańsk astronomical clock is a fifteenth-century astronomical clock that has been dismunted and kept saved during the IIWW and reconstructed after 1945. It has a musical mechanism acted every hour with Adam and Eve ringing the bells during two set of people walking out of tower doors.
  • Just entering in the church, at left side there is a copy of The Last Judgement by Flemish painter Hans Memling, the original is currently preserved in the National Museum.
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