Polish Cathedrals

Polish Cathedrals - Adam Bujak

Cathedrals, the principal churches in their dioceses, are focal points for religious
worship. But they are also magnificent monuments of art and history. Throughout
the entirety of Christendom Cathedrals have documented the story of their peoples
and nations. Communities congregate in them to experience their moments of great
joy, and their moments of great sorrow. Each individual Christian praises his Lord
in the quietness of his heart; yet as a community we seek a place which will unite
us for this purpose. The Cathedral – the one that has a thousand years of
history, such as Gniezno, Cracow or Poznań, and its modern successor, such
as the one at Białystok or Bielsko-Biała – is just such a special
place. Cathedrals have always fascinated Adam Bujak, one of the world’s greatest
photographers, who has now created a work to parallel their monumentality. A full
documentary picture, accomplished for the first time with such scrutinising artistry,
has now been complied of all the Cathedrals and Auxiliary Cathedrals within Poland’s
new church administrative, to amaze and delight Bujak’s readers.