St. Anne's Church () is a Baroque Roman Catholic church located in the town of Biała Podlaska, in eastern Poland.
History It was originally built in 1572, on the site of an earlier shrine, as a Protestant church dedicated to the Arianism doctrine. The Protestants were expelled in 1596 by Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł. Between 1597 and 1603 it was rebuilt as a Catholic church, being dedicated to Saint Anne in 1603. The church is built in the shape of a Latin cross.
Katarzyna Sobieska, who was the sister of King John III Sobieski and the wife to Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, installed a crescent under a Latin cross atop the spire to commemorate the victory of the Christian Coalition at the Battle of Vienna.
Surroundings Near to the church there are multiple structures, including: A wooden vicar's house (wikarówka) from the 18th century with traditional roof shingles; A bell tower from 1765; A presbytery from 1750.
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