W niniejszej publikacji zaprezentowano współczesne realizacje białostockiej architektury kościołów rzymsko - katolickich, począwszy od lat 80.XX w. do końca pierwszej dekady XXI w. Wśród przedstawionych obiektów znalazły się wielkokubaturowe świątynie, charakterystyczne dla PRL-owskiej „odwilży” z lat 80. XX w. oraz realizacje najnowsze. Obiekty te, stanowiące najliczniejszą grupę spośród wybudowanych świątyń, obrazują zmieniające się na przestrzeni 30 lat trendy i tendencje w kształtowaniu architektury kościołów.

W niniejszej publikacji zaprezentowano historię rozwoju białostockiej architektury kościołów rzymsko - katolickich, począwszy od miasta Jana Klemensa Branickiego do lat 80.XX w. Wśród przedstawionych obiektów znalazły się świątynie, które stały się architektonicznymi dominantami i ikonami miasta oraz obiekty zrealizowane we wczesnym PRL. Ponadto kościoły nigdy nie zrealizowane – projektowane na obszarach wielkich osiedli mieszkaniowych w latach 60. XX w.

Three Roman Catholic churches, built in Wrocław over the past several decades, were subjected to an analysis in the article. The author presented an aesthetic analysis of geometric forms which represent the different stylistic motifs that had been present during the period in our country. Postmodernism—rich in geometric ornamentation and called “romantic geometry”—from the beginning of the 1980’s was clashed with the calm, geometric new modernism from a slightly later period. In each case it was the context and the tradition of the historically rich city that became the superior value.

The article discusses the architecture of the parish church in Czarnca (1640 – around 1655), which up till now has not been discussed in detail by researchers. The innovative construction solutions used in the church are part of a wider European environment, in which architects were looking for ways to make better use of natural sunlight for interior lightning in buildings.

The chuch dedicated to The Holy Spirit, erected in Wrocław, in housing estate Huby, was created during the communist period, hence it was very difficult to design it, and to build. But it was also the period close to the collapse of this regime, so communist leaders were pressed to be more tolerant towards human rights than before, including the religious freedom and towards building new churches. The author of the church mentioned – a very active political oppositionist – when designing the strongly innovative church building, was simultaneously forced by fate to fight formal difficulties caused by oppressive rulers. Author makes the reader closer to those complicated double troubles: artistic, parallel to the political. Finally, the church building was happily completed, then became widely popular and accepted.