The Auxiliary Church of St. Simon and St. Jude Thaddeus in Dobra

Monuments

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Dobra 99, 34-642 Dobra Tourist region: Gorce i Beskid Wyspowy

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The church in the village of Dobra in the Beskid Wyspowy was built at the end of the 17th century on the site of a church that had burned down. It belongs to the parish of Our Lady of the Scapular. The temple is an example of Baroque wooden sacred architecture with interesting Rococo furnishings.

The parish of Dobra was erected in 1361 by Bishop Bodzanta of Kraków. The first church from the 14th century burned down in 1678. The new wooden church, which has survived to the present day, was founded by the Crown Chamberlain, Jerzy Dominik Lubomirski, and consecrated by Bishop Mikołaj Oborski in 1684. The parish is associated with the cult of Our Lady of the Scapular, whose image was consumed by flames in the church fire in 1678. After 1692, Fr. Juraszewski funded a new painting, which was placed in the annexed chapel in 1760 in a Baroque altarpiece. Between 1865 and 1867, a porch was added and the chancel and vestry were extended.

It is a timber-framed Baroque temple with a square pillar tower, three naves with a polygonal closed chancel. In 1912, the shingle roof was covered with sheet metal. The interior is decorated with a late Baroque figural and ornamental polychrome from 1760, restored by Jan Stankiewicz in 1863–1865. The chancel retains a gallery and polychromes from the 17th century. The Rococo main altar contains a Baroque tabernacle from the 18th century and a Veraicon-style painting from the 17th century. Other 18th-century furnishings include Baroque side altars with a painting of the Holy Family, and a painting of Our Lady of the Rosary surrounded by St Catherine of Sienna and St Dominic. The finial bears an image of St Alexander. Another altarpiece of St Sebastian is with a painting on a board of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The main painting is the Crucifixion, and a painting of St Isidore covers it.

The next altar has the image of Ecce Homo, overshadowed by the Heart of Jesus, a work from 1944. There is also the altar with the image of Our Lady of the Scapular. The pulpit is Rococo and the font is wooden and Baroque. In addition, there are the Stations of the Cross from 1865, the work of Jan Stankiewicz. A copy of the image of Our Lady of the Scapular, which was moved to the new church in 1980, was placed in the chapel.

The church is surrounded by an old tree and a stone wall from 1800 with three gates and shrines of the Stations of the Cross from 1844. The temple is located on the Wooden Architecture Route.