Multicultural City

Sosnowiec is the seat of the Orthodox Church Parish, covering the Silesian Province and East Opole Region. The Wiera, Nadieżda and Lubow Eastern Orthodox Church situated at Kilińskiego Street is the only preserved Orthodox temple (see the photo). The city is also the seat of the Lutheran and Augsburg Parish at Żeromskiego Street in Sosnowiec. On the 9th of September 1939 the Great Synagogue that existed in Sosnowiec in the past became a place of tortures of Judaism followers, inflicted by the Nazis. A small number of this religion followers still live in the city today. In Sosnowiec you will also find a unique necropolis, a multi-religious cemetery, situated at Smutna Street, which is divided in four sections: the Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox and Jewish part.

A significant element of the history of Sosnowiec is Residential Architecture, which has gained due recognition of art historians and restorers.

Other monuments of the city that need to be mentioned are the neo-Renaissance Dietel Palace, built in the second half of the 19th century, with its neo-rococo ballroom and neo-Baroque dinning room and study, as well as the former Schoen Palace, located at 1 Maja Street, with elements of neo-Gothic style, where one can find a ballroom, old library and a large dinning room. The Palace was built in the 19th century. An important point of the tourist landscape is also the garden and palace layout, which includes two palaces of the Schoen family, a park and remains of garden buildings. Currently one of the buildings serves as the seat of the Sosnowiec Museum. The oldest Sosnowiec monument is the Sielecki Castle, whose history dates back to the Middle Ages. Presently the castle houses the Sosnowiec Art Centre.

Residential architecture is not the only tourist attraction of Sosnowiec. The city also prides itself on its unique - Zakopane style Folk House, historical railway stations and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with polychromes by Włodzimierz Tetmajer (the only completed work of the artist in the whole interior of the cathedral.)