St. Nicholas Church is the oldest religious building in Fordon, although most of the walls of the current church were built during the interwar period. The first wooden church was built after the town was re-established by Władysław Jagiełło in 1424. The oldest part of the church, dating from the late 16th century, is the chapel adjacent to the east. This space serves as an academic chapel and the headquarters of the “Emaus” Academic Ministry.

The current structure of the church was built in the Neo-Baroque style. The church is a single-nave, brick, plastered building with a closed chancel facing north and a tower in the southeast corner. The façade is two-story, with the upper story flanked on the sides by volute drips and obelisks, and adorned with pairs of columns. The 48.8-meter-high tower is adorned with pilasters featuring Corinthian capitals and prominent cornices. It is topped by a massive copper dome dating from the 1980s.

Currently, the interior of the church contains not only furnishings from the 1920s and 1930s but also remnants of Baroque furnishings from the old church. Particularly noteworthy are the altars, ceiling frescoes, stained-glass windows, altar paintings, statues, and feretories. The church contains seven altars. The chapel still has two windows with rounded arches featuring stained-glass depictions of St. Adalbert and St. Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of the church in Wyszogród, whose legacy is carried on by the church in Fordon. The chapel features an altar that is the most valuable piece of sacred art from the former church, crafted in the Baroque style in the mid-17th century.

Among the church’s movable artifacts are, among others: a golden Gothic chalice from 1585 with Renaissance ornamentation; a Baroque chalice from 1734; a silver, wrought-iron Baroque monstrance from 1745; and a Late Renaissance and a Baroque chalice.

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St. Nicholas Church (Old Fordon)

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