Neo-Baroque Collegiate Gdyńska

Neo-Baroque parish church of Our Lady Queen of Polish Gdynia (Gdynia Collegiate Church) is a Roman Catholic parish of the same name. Initiated the establishment of the chapel was the first Mayor of Gdynia John Radtke. Construction of the church began in 1922, according to the project Wojtkiewicz and Baranowski. With the construction of the inhabitants of Gdynia church did not have to pretend to be a 3-kilometer road to the church in Oksywie. May 3, 1924 on the feast of Our Lady Queen of Polish church was dedicated. Since 1927 the church tower was topped with a Neo-Baroque dome. The first parish priest was Fr. Ernest Jesionowski, who after only a year of activity gave the church, Fr. Theodore Turzyńskiemu which marked the 12 years of its pre-war history. He gave the final shape of the interior of the temple. In 1939 he was together with his colleagues arrested by the Gestapo was murdered in Piaśnica. During the occupation, the church was converted to evangelical parish of Martin Luther. January 25, 1984, the church was listed as a monument. In addition to the collegiate church is later belonged to the same parish. Both are adjacent to the site of John Paul II. 10 April 2011 at the collegiate unveiled a memorial plaque dedicated to the victims of the plane crash of the Polish Tu-154 in Smolensk.