Niepokalanów

Niepokalanów monastery (so called City of the Immaculate Mother of God) is a Roman Catholic religious community situated in Teresin (near the Warsaw-Łowicz railway line, about 42 km to the west from the capital of Poland). It was founded in autumn 1927 by Friar Minor Conventual – Maximilian Kolbe, who was later canonized as a saint-martyr of the Catholic Church. thumbtime=1|thumb|240px|Presbytery and the southern wing of the basilica in Niepokalanów thumb|240px|Radio building (2025) thumb|240px|Replica of St Maximilian's room thumb|240px|Old wooden chapel (1927-29) thumb|240px|Niepokalanów – pilgrim's hostel thumb|240px|Chapel of perpetual adoration

== Beginnings of the monastery == In summer 1927 duke Jan Drucki-Lubecki, the owner of a large estate located in Teresin village, offered fr. Maximilian Kolbe a convenient ground near Warsaw for building a new monastery, later called Niepokalanów. In autumn of the same year the first three wooden barracks (including the first chapel) were built and a consecration of the new monastery took place on 7 December 1927. The facility served as a home for the first group of conventual friars, a publishing house and a minor seminary. In 1930 father Kolbe founded a similar community in Nagasaki (Japan), called Mugenzai no Sono (無原罪の園: Garden of the Immaculate).