Church St John the Baptist

Church St John the Baptist (Katholische Johanniskirche) in 1890 was built for the purposes of the Catholic Diaspora in Protestant Szczecin. An Engelbert Seibertz architect was the initiator of the scheme from Berlin. To 1945 the yr was an only Roman Catholic church in Szczecin. After the war, the church was rebuilt, but the original form of the octagonal pyramid-shaped tower helmet was restored only in the 1980s. Characteristic are placed on the corners and portals of the church metal garlands in the shape of winged dragons. Inside the porch, there are paintings depicting four evangelists In 2008 the XVI Pope Benedykta granted the church of honourable St John the Baptist title of the smaller basilica