About

The goal of religo.pl is to make it easy to find a church or other place of worship in the area where you are — whether you’re travelling, on holiday, or staying somewhere new. It gives you quick access to the essential information about each place — its location, service times, administrative ties (parish, deanery, diocese), and links to further sources: the community’s own website, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and Poland’s heritage register.

religo is an interactive map of religious places of worship in Poland. The project brings together information on houses of worship across many faith traditions — from the most widely represented Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Greek Catholic, and Protestant churches (Evangelical, Lutheran, Baptist), through synagogues, mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples, and Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses, all the way to smaller and interfaith communities.

In the longer run religo.pl also aims to present places of worship as destinations in their own right — somewhere worth planning a whole day around, especially in the less-popular, off-the-beaten-path corners of the country. A historic church, a wooden Orthodox tserkva, or a synagogue away from the usual routes can be a reason for a trip all by itself.

What you can do

Browse the map of places of worship across Poland.
Filter by religion or denomination — instantly see where the houses of worship of a chosen tradition are located in your area.
Search for places by name.
Locate yourself with one click and find the nearest places of worship.
See the details of each place — address, service times, contact, and external links.
Get directions and share the location — just click the Google Maps link next to each place.
Update and correct the data — especially service and meeting times, or a place’s proper website — or simply leave a comment or a critical note, via the “Suggest a correction” option on each place.
Install it on your phone (PWA) — so the app runs instantly instead of opening in a browser.

Who it’s for

For people looking for a place of worship away from their home community, for travellers, religious studies researchers, journalists, and anyone interested in the religious landscape of contemporary Poland.

Collaboration

religo.pl is open to working with the institutions featured on the map — parishes, congregations, dioceses and other communities — on presentation, publication and advertising. Proposals can be sent via the Contact page.

Data

Every place comes from the OpenStreetMap community — that is its sole source. Right now the focus is on improving the quality of what is on the map: ideally each place should have a name, an address, its own website, a Wikipedia link, a “how to get there” link and a link to visitor reviews on Google Maps, plus a schedule of services and masses. Not every place has the full set yet.

That is why the site’s interface is being expanded so that anyone can add and correct information directly — the more hands, the fuller and more up-to-date the map.

Some of the data was gathered automatically from publicly available online sources, using purpose-built tooling — this applies in particular to some places’ website addresses. These serve as a fallback where OpenStreetMap has no official link; if such an address is out of date or wrong, please correct it.

Sources & licenses

Place data comes from OpenStreetMap, made available under the ODbL — © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
Encyclopedic data (heritage status, construction dates, relations, etc.) comes from Wikidata, under CC0 (public domain).
Wikipedia — links and popularity signals; Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; each file carries its own licence and author, shown on its file page.

If you hold the rights to any of this material and would like the attribution corrected or the item removed, please get in touch via the Contact page.