Barbara Bielecka
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Barbara Bielecka (1 January 1931 – 23 September 2019) was a Polish Functionalist architect and a member of the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. She designed the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen, Poland's largest church, one of the largest churches by area in the world. It was constructed between 1994 and 2004. She served on the Commission of Urban Planning and Architecture at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków.
Bielecka was born in 1931.[1] She was on the faculty of the architecture department of the Gdańsk University of Technology. She had designed other churches before winning the architectural competition to design the Lichen sanctuary, and a pilgrim’s house in Lichen.[2]
In May 1985, Bielecka joined the Commission of Urban Planning and Architecture at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków.[3] Bielecka died on 23 September 2019, at the age of 87.[4]
