National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
Shrine pictured from northeast, 2011 | |
Interactive map of National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa | |
| Location | Doylestown, Pennsylvania |
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| Designer | George Szeptycki |
| Type | Shrine |
| Beginning date | 1953 |
| Opening date | June 26, 1955 |
| Dedicated to | Black Madonna of Częstochowa |
The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Polish: Narodowe Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej), also known as the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Bright Mountain (Polish: Narodowe Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Jasnogórskiej), and also commonly known as the American Czestochowa (Polish: Amerykańska Częstochowa), and Czestochowa, is a Polish-American Catholic shrine near Doylestown, Pennsylvania, founded in 1953. It houses a reproduction of the Black Madonna icon of Częstochowa, Poland. The heart of Poland's third prime minister, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, is also preserved there.