Originally built for nuns of the Carmelite Order in the mid 17th century, Kraków's best-known Protestant church actually started out as a Roman Catholic institution. However, by 1787 the nuns were moved to a different monastery, and the church - perhaps not deemed grand enough, despite its early-Baroque feel courtesy of architect Giovanni Trevano - was emptied and put up for sale. Not a very tempting piece of real estate, it remained on the market for almost 30 years, when it was finally donated by city authorities to the local Protestants; this was to make up for the fact that the Protestant church on ul. Św. Jana had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times by violent bigots. The church's sparse, classicist interior features - rather unusually - an 1882 painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, depicting Jesus quieting a tempest.
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