Over 3,000 churches were built in Poland between 1945 and 1989, despite the socialist state's hostility towards religion.
We call this Day-VII Architecture.
Built by parishioners from scavenged or pinched materials, the churches were at once an expression of faith and a form of anti-government protest.
Their fantastic designs broke with the state's rigid urbanism.
Neither legal nor prohibited, the construction of churches during this period engaged the most talented architects and craftspeopl.
Dom Publishers Day-vii architecture: a catalogue of polish churches post 1945, paperback/izabela cichonska
