St. Mary's Church - Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

As it is easy to guess, even after what the church is called after, the construction was initiated by the Teutonic Knights, or the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Hospital, and until 1454 they had the right to appoint parish priests. This was often the cause of controversy among the Gdansk townspeople with the church representatives managing the church. The townspeople disliked some of the orders and customs introduced from above, differing from the practices used in other churches. For one and a half centuries, the construction and extension of the church changed its status, a large part of the chapels built was funded by various kinds of brotherhoods, which claimed the right to manage “their” parts of the temple. In the 16th century, in the era of the Reformation, the church was gradually taken over by Lutherans. The first Protestant ceremony was celebrated here in 1525. Since then, two types of Christianity were celebrated  Roman Catholic and Protestant ones. After 1557, the Protestants constituted almost the whole cast of the church, they occupied all the chapels. However, the Roman Catholic priest was parish priest. Finally, in 1572, the protégés “took over” the main altar where they performed the ceremonies until 1945. Catholic parishioners kept the presbytery for themselves.