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Church of St. Bartholomew in Łapanów was built in 1529, and rebuilt after the destruction in 1614, together with a new chapel by the nave.

The Church of St. Bartholomew was built in the second half of the 13th century in the early Gothic style. In the 14th century, after the church fire, Petr Parléř completely rebuilt a larger choir with chapels. A bell tower was added at the beginning of the 16th century.

The Roman Catholic church of St. Bartholomew was built in the 17th century. The church currently belongs to the parish of Our Lady of Fatima.

Church of St. Bartholomew in Poręba Wielka was built in the 16th century and is one of the oldest churches in the Silesian Foothills.

The Church of St. Basil of Caesarea is a Serbian Orthodox church built in 1886. The interior of the church was built gradually over a period of more than forty years. During the 1992-1995 war, the building and the interior of the church suffered significant damage. Only two of the icons that were placed on the iconostasis were preserved, the icon of St. John and the icon of St. Venerable Mother Paraskeva.

A wooden Church of St. Basil is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1564-1565. There is no knowledge of a previous church in the area. According to the inscription above the southern door, the current church would have been built in 1733. During the twentieth century, the central dome has been demolished by a storm and restored in 1970.

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The Church of St. Benedict was built in the 15th century when Benedictine nuns settled on the present site to erect their church. After the Val di Noto earthquake in 1693, the complex was rebuilt from 1704 and completed in 1763 with work on the façade by Giovanni Battista Vaccarini and the interior decoration and fresco painting by Giovanni Tuccari. After the 1943 bombings that hit the building hard, the splendid frescoes painted between 1726 and 1729, largely covered at the end of the 18th century, resurfaced.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Benedict is the smallest church in Kraków. It was founded in the year 1000 and was originally in the form of a rotunda. The present building is the result of interventions in the 15th and 16th centuries. Recent archaeological works revealed 37 burials outside the church and 29 inside.