THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY Church building The interior of the Cathedral Square in front of Church

Church building The church was built over the years 1896-1911 to the design of Józef Pius Dziekoński. Since 25 March 1992 it has been the city’s cathedral. It is basilica with a nave and two aisles, a dominant rosette and three portals . The design relates to French Gothic. The 72- meter towers resemble the taller tower of the Kraków's Church of Mary. The Building was constructed with locally produced brick and the elevations were finished with foreign ceramic tiles and sandstone of Szydłowiec.

The interior of the Cathedral In side, the focal point is the triptych altar in the mid section of the church in a niche is a statue of the patron - the Holy Mother with the Child. The statue was carved with white marble from Rome. On both sides there are statues of kneeling angels. In the aisles there are statues of St. Wojciech and St. Stanisław the bishop, both under baldachins in the transept, to the left is the Holy Cross altar with a monumental scene of crucifixion, built in 1911.

In the side In the side niches are the statues of the town's patron Kazimierz Wielki (the Great) and St. Stanisław Kostka, the patron of the young . To the right of the transept is the St Kazimierz altar . In its central part is a painting by Józef Mazurkiewicz presenting the paying of tribute to the Heart of Jesus by representatives of four society states of St. Dominik and St. Jacek.

Statues of the four Evangelists Below is a baroque painting of relic of St. Kazimierz. An intresting element of the church's interior is the neo - Gothic pulpit supported with a wooden column, with a baldachin finished with an open - work top. The wooden balustrade has four niches with statues of the four Evangelists.

Sarcophagus of bishop Jan In the left vestibule is the sarcophagus of bishop Jan Chrapek, administrator of the Radom Diocese, tragically deceased on 18 March 2001.

Square in front of Church In front of the cathedral are two statues. - the statue of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński holding to his breast a painting of the Holy Mother of Częstochowa. The statue was erected in May of 2002 to commemorate the return of the painting to its pilgrimage across Poland.

statues A copy of the Jasna Góra icon stolen from the communist government concealment by Józef Wójcik, a priest from Radom was carried in front of the cathedral with reverence by Primate Stefan Wyszyński , Cardinal Karol Wojtyła and other bishops on 18 June 1972. - The other statue is of John Paul II - uncovered on 4 July 2008 on the 17th anniversary of the Pope's visit to Radom .

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