Postcard - Church in Kalinowszyzna

The parish church of St Agnes was situated on Kalinowszczyzna Street in Lublin, by the former route to Lviv. According to legend, Maciej Wardziak, a seriously ill burgher, having recovered, gave his house to the Augustinian fathers brought from Krasnystaw. This took place in 1624. In the following years a sacral complex with a monastery and a temple was created. The church presbytery was decorated in the Lublin Renaissance style with a characteristic network of stuccowork on the vault. The temple was destroyed during the Cossack-Moscow invasion. At the end of the 17th century it was rebuilt. The church was consecrated only in 1760, by bishop Kajetan Sołtyk. Several years later, a wooden well was built, which has survived to the present day, and which was immortalised by the artist Józef Gumowski.

After the roof fire in 1831, the church was restored once again. In the 1860s, the main portal was changed. After the fall of the January Uprising, the Augustinian Order was dissolved. Their temple was then used as a parish church, and the parish was moved here from St. Nicholas' Church on Czwartek. The former monastery was turned into a vicarage.

In the 19th century there was a hospital and an asylum next to the post-Augustinian church, on the site of the former cemetery. In 1873, to commemorate the reconstruction of Kalinowszczyzna Street, a column with a statue of the Virgin Mary was erected in front of the church. A year later, the old bell tower in front of the church entrance was replaced by a new one, designed by Aleksander Zwierzchowski. It was placed on the eastern side of the façade. The belfry, though new, faithfully reproduced the decorations of its predecessor.