Eugeniusz Niebelski
The old church in Irkutsk, still called the “Polish church”, has long been the property of the city; it is a concert hall with an organ (“organ hall”), where concerts are regularly held. In the years after perestroika, some renovations were made in the church and to the tower itself, from the top of which the cross was removed to replace it with a new one. So as not to be hauled off to the dump, the old one – wooden, covered with sheet metal (already well rusted) – was taken to a new church on the other side of the Angara.
Read the text in Polish: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/krzyze-na-syberii-wschodniej-znaki-polskiej-obecnosci-wspomnienie-swiadka/
