In a alternatively unexpected place, at the preserved section of Wirazowa Street on concrete-affalt belligerent, pressed between the monstrous constructions of the motorway junction Marynarska and the freight terminal of Okęcie Airport, you can find a lost chapel. As the plaque next to it informs, it is simply a relic of a no longer existing village, whose residents were displaced due to the construction of an airport and a road transport junction.
The bend utilized to be 4 kilometres long, moving through the towns of Zbarż, Wyczółki, Gorzkiewki and Krasnowola, which are inactive marked on the old maps of Warsaw from the 1970s. The street ended at 159, on today's Sasanki Street, not far from the inactive preserved Zbarski Pond (today there is simply a tiny lawn with benches, on the another hand a hideous tin fence).
The chapel was originally located in the place of today's cargo port, the efforts of residents of Wirazowa Street – especially the Wiśniewski States – in 1991, however, it was moved to its present place, where Mrs. Fołtyn's property was located.
When the construction of the motorway junction began, the Warsaw authorities purchased all the surrounding plots of land, disposing of residents. In this way the historical farm of the Laskowski State close Zbarski Pond was destroyed. Mrs. Fołtyn's abandoned farm besides became a refuge for the homeless and the unattended chapel destroyed.
The efforts of the parish of St Francis of Assisi in Okęcie were yet agreed that the chapel would stay in its place and would be restored at the expense of the parishioners, the remaining fewer local residents and partially the investor. The construction of the road was completed in 2014 and then – 30 April 2014 at 19.30 a chapel with priests from the parish of St Francis of Assisi and in the presence of the faithful was dedicated.
Another wooden hut, which houses a hand car wash, was preserved respective 100 metres away. The cottage looks in front of the modern air hotel skyscrapers An eye as bizarre and absurd as a chapel – as if moved from a different era.
On the tin plate under the mary figure can be found written by 1 of the erstwhile inhabitants of the village that no longer existed today, somewhat obscured the text of the song "My Poland prayed":
"And the chapels – the houses of God
Guard the roads, fields and villages,
They encourage you to pray
To the Fatherland and the Pope.
Passing at any time
Bless you, large God!
New Year!
Can I have another one?
Let everything happen
In the name of the Father and the boy and the Spirit
Holy. Amen.’
On the plaque under the figure we will besides find a request to the fewer inhabitants of Wirazowa Street and passersby for prayerful care of the chapel and a call for Mary Immaculate to watch over us, Okęcie and the full Warsaw.
Ronald Lasecki
