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The wooden Chapel of Our Lady of Angels has a rectangular shape and has a gable roof with a turret. It was  built between 1905 and 1908 by a local farmer Wojciech Trybała, who was also a carpenter and a wood butcher. In 1907 the bell „Benedykt” was hallowed and hang in the turret of the chapel. Since then it has tolled the Angelus.

The front wall is decorated with an elaborate sculpture decoration, which includes wooden sculptures made in 1773 which were brought here from the parish church, situated in the center of Zawoja. In autumn 1977 the pope to be - Cardinal Karol Wojtyła - during his visit in the parish church said mass in the chapel.

 

 

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