Polish Court Rejects Call to Remove Crucifix From Parliament

Reuters ^ | 1/15/13 | Chris Borowski and Pawel Sobczak

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No, actually it dates from the last King of Poland -- in 1777. Says a lot about the religious tolerance that this very Catholic King let a Lutheran Church be built that was bigger than the Catholic Churches around :)

It was destroyed by the Germans in 1939 - the German Lutheran community in Warsaw (as in Łódż) were mostly anti-Nazi.

It was recently rebuilt (like most of Warsaw -- fact aside, did you know that over 70% of Warsaw was reduced to rubble by the Germans in 1944? And the ghetto area was burnt to the ground. The pictures you can see is just a big junkyard, no buildings standing. They rebuilt the entire thing over 15 years.)