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Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven (St. Mary's Church) - is a Brick Gothic church re-built in the 14th century (originally built in the early 13th century), adjacent to the Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland. Standing 80 m (262 ft) tall, it is particularly famous for its wooden altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz).

The chancel is covered with starry vault , made ​​by master Czipsera in 1442. The keystones of the ribs appear crests: Polish, Krakow and Bishop Iwo Odrowąż - the founder of the first temple Mary. The perimeter niches set statues of the prophets: Jeremiah, Daniel, David, Ezekiel, Jonah and Isaiah. It was made ​​in 1891 by Zygmunt Langman Kraków sculptor.

Walls decorated with wall paintings done in the years 1890-1892 by Jan Matejko . With its implementation has worked with many of his students master, later known and prominent painters, including: Anthony Grammar, Edward better, Stanislaw Bankiewicz, Mehoffer , Stanislaw Wyspianski . Technical drawings made ​​Thomas Lisiewicz and gilding work is the work of Michael Stojakowski. Stained glass windows in this part of the church is by Joseph Mehoffera , Wyspiański and Tadeusz Dmochowski.

On both sides of the sanctuary is covered with a canopy set stalls . They were made ​​in 1586 and then in 1635 supplemented zapleckami that Fabian Möller decorated with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the life of Christ and Mary. The stalls right to present: Tree of Jesse , Nativity of Mary , the Presentation of Mary , Marriage of St. Joseph , the Annunciation , the Visitation of Holy. Elizabeth and Christmas . The stalls north (left) are sculptures: Circumcision , Homage of the Magi , Presentation of the Lord , Out of the Mother , the risen Christ appears to Mary , Our Lady of the Assumption , Coronation and the Madonna and Child surrounded by symbols of the Litany of Loreto . The choir organ 12-voice.