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Kościół pw. Świętej Marii Magdaleny

Czechia

Before you look at anything else, know what you are standing in: the oldest Catholic church still standing in Cieszyn, and the town's parish church, the fara. It began in the thirteenth century, around 1263 (the source gives the date as approximate), as a Romanesque building founded by Eufemia, wife of Duke Władysław of Opole. It was not a parish church at first but the church of a Dominican friary, and it was dedicated not to Mary Magdalene but to the Virgin Mary.

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