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The Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of the Healing of the Sick is a modernist church built from 1979 to 1981 according to the plan of architects Henryk Buszko and Aleksander Franta. The church has sculptures by the famous sculptor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła.

The Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross was built in 1905-1907 of red clinker bricks in a Romanesque Revival style. It is the second church on this site, the first, built in 1854-55, having proved too small for the Catholic community.

The Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross was probably founded in the 13th century with a Dominican monastery. In 1419, the monastery was burned down by the Hussites and was not restored until 1621 with the return of Catholics to the region.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany was built from 1929 according to the plans of the Castrop-Rauxel architect Wilhelm Tiefenbach. In 2010 the church became the first motorway church in a large city and was included in the Industrial Heritage Route in 2011. The church was built in the Bauhaus style, with the typical simple and strictly geometrical forms.

"Cyrilka" was built in the 13th century at the monastery gate for the pre-monastery inhabitants. It fell into disrepair in the 19th and was restored in the neo-Gothic style on the occasion of the Jubilee of Cyril and Methodius in 1863. In the first half of the 20th century, services were celebrated here in the Byzantine-Slavic rite.

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The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was built in 1816 at the expense of the congregation, Prelate Visomyrsky and Canon Kuprevich. The first Catholic church in Asune was made of wood and was built in 1680 under the auspices of the Jesuits at the expense of King John III of Poland.

The Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is an example of popular wooden architecture, built in 1810. In 1880, a bell tower was built above the church and a vestibule was created at the entrance. The church is surrounded by a low wall, the façade of which is best preserved. In the early 1960s, the atheist authorities closed the church and banned worship. Since the 1990s, the church has been restored and is in good condition.

The Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a monument of wooden vernacular architecture. It was built in the second half of the 19th century on the site of a temple dating from the mid-16th century. The church has a rectangular plan and is covered with a gable roof. Above the pediment of the main façade, there is an octagonal bell tower. An onion-shaped dome on a faceted drum is erected above the apse.