Taking advantage of the short break between the scope of work completed in 2023 and the work planned for 2024, we decided to answer a frequently asked question: why “Monastery of Souls”? No, it has nothing to do with ghosts and other spook, but rather with spiritual life. Most likely,…
Monastery – report 2023
The mayor of Nowogrodziec, Robert Marek Relich, received a report on the activities undertaken by the Your Heritage Foundation and Your Heritage Club for the former fortified monastery in Nowogrodziec in 2023. As cooperation with both local authorities and residents of the area, where the monument is located, are very…
“Lamplighter”
Last year, Piotr Cugowski visited the Pearl with his song “Lamplighter”. Are you curious about the effects?
Happy 2024!
We wish you a wonderful New Year’s Eve, and a lot of perseverance in achieving your goals and many personal successes in the New Year! pht: DJ Mac Vind_Official
Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in the Monastery of Souls
We made it! The Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments approved this year’s works in our wonderful defensive monastery! This year, the pile of rubble and crumbling, sooty walls were transformed into a full-fledged gateway connecting the Monastery with the city.
Will the Zagrodno Commune provide legal protection to its treasures?
While traveling around the immediate vicinity of our Temple of Art and Light, widely known as The Pearl (after all, Grodziec Castle is visible from our observation tower), Your Heritage’s reconnaissance team came across amazing entities guarding the outskirts of the castle. Two linden trees, one of which is truly…
A new opening for the defensive monastery in Nowogrodziec!
The works planned for this year, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, at the gate passage of our beautiful fortified monastery are slowly coming to an end. Walls and vaults reinforced, supplemented, grouted, cleaned, protected against fungus and moisture. It’s just the beginning, but it’s…
Abandoned cemeteries – unwanted heritage
There are abandoned cemeteries everywhere. In Warsaw, the Jewish cemetery in Praga was abandoned and severely neglected for decades. In Żeliszów – a Lutheran cemetery from the early 19th century, right next to the Temple of Art and Light: the Pearl. There is no one to turn on the candle-lights…
Pearl Night
Yesterday the “Pearl by Night” event took place – the last “open door” event in the Temple of Art and Light this year. The tour began with a visit to the Pearl Cemetery, illuminated with candles, in the company of a local historian – Darek Gołębiewski, who spoke engagingly about…
The Pearl at night!
The last opportunity to visit the Temple of Art and Light this year will be October 28. We accept registration for two groups – for 18:30 and 19:30. First, the guide will take you around the Pearl Cemetery and then inside the Pearl. The ground floor will be accessible and…
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