The parish church of St. Casimir is located in ód on Nizarарana
Street in the area called Widzew. The construction of the church
began with the consecration of the site, which was carried out by
Bishop Vincent Timenetsky in 1923. By the way, the local parish was
founded much earlier - on April 11, 1911.
The history of the
appearance of the church of St. Casimir is very interesting. At the
end of the 19th century, the population of the village of Widzew
near Lodz, which later became part of this city, rapidly increased.
The growth of the population was facilitated by the emergence of the
"Widze Manufactory", which was founded by Julius Kinidzer and Julius
Hensel. In 1900, 4 thousand people lived in Vidzeve. They were in
dire need of a new temple. Initially, local parishioners prayed in a
wooden pavilion built for an industrial exhibition, but this
lightweight structure did not survive the winter of 1895. Julius
Kinidzer decided to reconstruct it, rebuilding it into a theater.
However, the local pastor was able to convince him to direct his
efforts towards building a new church.
The church was built
over 11 years - in the period from 1925 to 1936. The chief architect
of the Church of St. Casimir was Josef Kaban. The temple was
consecrated on November 25, 1936 by Bishop Vladimir Yasinsky.
The three-nave church was built in the form of a Latin cross in
the imperial style. The main building ends with a semicircular apse.
On the south side, the church is adjoined by two high towers with
bells on the upper floors. The east and west facades are not much
different from each other. On the north side, the temple was
subsequently completed, but the architects who designed this part
tried to create it in the same style as the other facades of the
church.