What to look for
See both parts: the modest baroque old church and the tall red-brick basilica. The difference in scale is best seen from Kościuszko Square, a few minutes away.
How to get there and practical info
- Where
- Ul. Kościelna 2, by Kościuszko Square
- Entry
- Free, outside mass
Other sights in Białystok
Straight-line distances from „Cathedral of the Assumption (Old Parish Church)" — calculated from real coordinates. By road it is often further.
Kościuszko Square and town hallA triangular square with the rebuilt town hall — now the Podlasie Museum — and café garden
~173 m as the crow flies
Branicki Palace and gardensThe Versailles of Podlasie — the Hetman's baroque residence with French gardens open
~271 m as the crow flies
St Nicholas Orthodox CathedralThe Orthodox cathedral on Lipowa Street — golden domes and an interior full of icons.
~458 m as the crow flies
Ludwik Zamenhof CentreAn exhibition about the multicultural city in which Esperanto was born.
~618 m as the crow flies
Podlasie Opera and PhilharmonicThe largest stage in north-eastern Poland — opera, musicals and concerts, plus an open-air
~723 m as the crow flies
St Roch's ChurchA modernist gem on the hill at the end of Lipowa Street — a national Monument of History.
~1,1 km as the crow flies
Siberian Memorial MuseumA modern museum about deportations to Siberia — one of Poland's most important histor
~1,6 km as the crow flies
Supraśl — monastery and Icon MuseumA spa town in the Knyszyn Forest with a monastery, Icon Museum, kayaks and a river beach.
~15 km as the crow flies
Narew National Park — Waniewo–Śliwno boardwalkThe "Polish Amazon" — a kilometre of boardwalks and hand-pulled floating ferries
~24 km as the crow flies
Tykocin — Great Synagogue and castleA small town on the Narew with one of Poland's most beautiful synagogues and a rebuil
~28 km as the crow flies
Kruszyniany — Tatar mosqueAn 18th-century wooden mosque and cemetery of the Polish Tatars — plus Tatar cuisine.
~44 km as the crow flies
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