Church of the Mother of God of Częstochowa and Monastery of the Cistercians
On the edge of the Szklane Domy housing estate, adjacent to the nearby park, a Church and Monastery Complex has been built, including the Saint Bernard General Education Male High School (realisation in years 1984–1990). It forms a closed quadrangle with three yards. A two-level church is established on a semi-rectangular plan. In the lower part, there is a day chapel, with inclined floor, giving the interior an air of an amphitheatre. The upper church is an aisleless church. This impression is made stronger by the roof, constituting a fine-wrought structural mosaic of the skeleton of triangular racks, planes and skylights, bringing into mind associations with Neo-constructivism. Changeable lighting and warm colours of the materials contribute to the play of light
(interiors: Adam Wsiołkowski, since 1994). The presbytery is in form of arcade-shaped wings. The side galleries suggest division into aisles. There are no windows in the church walls. The structure is distinguished by fine details of the brick walls, and the spatial structure above the brick “plinth” makes it look light and monumental at the same time. One of the corner is underlined by a belfry, shaped after a pulpit. Typical for this complex is a visible contrast between the raw and simple texture of bricks of the walls, orange and beige in colour, and the complicated steel structure of the cubic, offset forms of the roof, which are twice as high as the walls, and the dynamic, expanded entrance. This gives the church and monastery complex its expressive character.