31 Senatorska Street. The St. Anthony church.
The stone church was built in the year 1679.
During the Warsaw Uprising it was damaged by Germans. The main altar, side altars, the pulpit and the organs were particularly destroyed. The Holy Family chapel, the grate and a part of moulding by chapels' ceiling survived.
The church was rebuilt in the years 1950-1956.
On the outer church wall there is a plaque commemorating 150 people who were executed by Germans on August 3 and August 15, 1944.
In the church cloistereds there are the following plaques:
- commemorating few hundred Home Army fallen soldiers of IV Region the City Centre;
- in memory of the Home Army commander of IV Region of the City Centre colonel Stanisław Wiktor Steczkowski a.k.a. "Zagończyk";
- commemorating the fallen soldiers of the Home Army battalion "Łukasiński";
- commemorating the fallen soldiers of the Home Army scouting battalion "Zo¶ka".
Apart from the above-mentioned ones, in the cloistered one can find several epitaph plates of the Home Army soldiers who lost their lives in the Warsaw Uprising.
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