Przeworsk and surroundings
The church and monastery of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre presently the Holy Spirit Parish Church
The monastery complex of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, founded by Jan Tarnowski, consists of the late-Gothic Holy Spirit Church erected in the years 1430–1473 with a chapel of the Christ Tomb built on in 1718, a building of the monastery from the 15th century and the 17th century monastery walls with a turret, presently a bell tower.
A symbol of existing since 1846 the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, commonly known as “Bożogrobcy” or “Miechowici” is the cross of Jerusalem with two cross-beams, up to this day at the top of all three church towers. The church interior, covered by a star-shaped vaulted ceiling, preserved a stark Gothic decoration that contrasts with a Baroque and Neo-Baroque equipment with the richly decorated high altar finished in 1693 (founded on the three-hundredth anniversary of the parish erection), stalls, ambo and also rood and side altars, a rood beam with crucifix grounded in the globe, a rood arch with the Instruments of the Passion. In the church presbytery there is a Gothic epitaph of Rafał Tarnowski, painted on the wood c.1490 and grave slabs from the same period. Noteworthy is also the gothic bronze baptismal font from the first half of the 15th century in the side aisle. In the chapel of the Christ Sepulchre, decorated in the first half of the 19th century with stucco works by Fryderyk Bauman and a polychrome displaying the Resurrection, there is the Lady Altar of Przeworsk and a copy of the Basilica of Jerusalem, on side walls built-in epitaphs of Teresa and Henryk Lubomirski – the owners of Przeworsk whose family crypt is under the chapel.
