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St. Anne's Church is a Roman Catholic Church located in the Śródmieście district, the main center of academic chaplaincy in Warsaw. The church was built at the Bernardine monastery, which was founded by Princess Anna Fyodorówna. In 1454, through the intermediary of John of Capistrano, she brought the first monks to Warsaw. Six brothers came to Warsaw under the leadership of Fr. Jakub from Głogów. Construction began in 1454 in the Gothic style. The walls of the church were built as half-timbered walls with the use of bricks, and soon after the monastery was built. According to the principle adopted by the order, the monastery complex was built outside the city walls, at the exit of one of the main routes coming out of the city. A cemetery was established next to the church (originally intended for monks but from 1643 it became public). The church (rebuilt many times 1518–1533, ca. 1620 and 1660–1667), it is a mixture of different architectural styles: the chancel is Gothic, oriented (facing east), and trihedral. The interior was Baroque in the years 1750–1753, and the late Baroque polychromes were made by the Bernardine priest Walenty Żebrowski. The façade in 1788 was acquired in the classicist style, while the bell tower from 1818 is built in the neo-Renaissance style. In 1830, the Loreto Chapel was built. It is a single-nave church with numerous side altars with a burial function. In the monastery building adjacent to the church, erected in 1514 by Jan of Komorów, in the cloister leading to the sacristy, you can see the only preserved crystal vault in Warsaw.
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