St. Roch's Church, Białystok

St. Roch's Church in Białystok
Bazylika św. Rocha w Białymstoku
53°08′04.5″N 23°08′40.5″E / 53.134583°N 23.144583°E / 53.134583; 23.144583
Location1 Księdza Adama Abramowicza, Centrum District, Białystok
Websitewww.swroch.bialystok.opoka.org.pl
Architecture
StyleModernism
Specifications
Height78 m
Designated17 January 2019

St. Roch Roman Catholic Church in Białystok, Poland was built between 1927 and 1946 in a modernistic style, designed by renowned Polish architect, professor Oskar Sosnowski. Its official name is Church-Monument of Poland's Regained Independence (Kościoł-Pomnik Odzyskania Niepodległości) and it stands on the Saint Roch hill on Lipowa Street in Białystok, in the spot where a Roman Catholic cemetery, founded in 1839, once stood. The cemetery was profaned by the Russians during the January Uprising.