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Founded in 1946.

Founded on the 550th anniversary of city rights.

This is the second mural in Skierniewice created as part of the “I Am Proud” campaign. Edward Choma was born on December 26, 1889 in Złoczów in the Tarnopol Province, in today’s Eastern Borderlands. On November 3, 1918, he volunteered for service in the Polish Army in Lviv and was assigned to units in the Third Defense of Lviv. He also served as a chaplain in a hospital for the wounded. After the Ukrainians were expelled from the city, on November 29, 1918, he was assigned as a chaplain to the 1st Lviv Rifle Regiment. From July 1919, he was a professional chaplain with the rank of captain. He arrived in Skierniewice with the 26th Infantry Division in October 1921 and took up the position of head of the military chaplaincy district. He was known for his fiery sermons and speeches, in which he appealed to patriotism and work for the newly reborn Polish state, taught soldiers to read and write, and supported national minorities among the military. He partially adapted the former Orthodox church to the needs of the Roman Catholic army. In May 1926, he was appointed the first parish priest of the military parish in Skierniewice. In January 1930, he was delegated to the position of administrator of the military parish in Słonim. At the outbreak of World War II, Father Senior Chaplain Major Edward Choma most likely served as chaplain of the 72nd Infantry Regiment. After the Red Army entered, he was captured by the Soviets in unknown circumstances on September 17, 1939. He was murdered in Katyn in April 1940. Posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel by the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński in November 2007.

Roman Catholic garrison church located in Skierniewice. It belongs to the Deanery of the Air Force of the Field Ordinariate of the Polish Army. The church was built as a garrison church belonging to the Tobolsk Infantry Regiment of the Tsarist Army stationed in the city. The cornerstone for the construction of the church was laid in 1899, while the consecration took place in 1903. The construction was financially supported by officers and soldiers from Skierniewice. Tsar Nicholas II Romanov also donated a large amount. The church was built to commemorate the death of Tsar Alexander III Romanov. The building was located on a square between the barracks. Originally, it was a brick five-domed church that could accommodate 1,000 people and was visible from a great distance. In 1936, the church was rebuilt into a garrison Roman Catholic church according to the design of Jan Łukasik.

In the years 1921-39, the 26th King Władysław IV Light Artillery Regiment of the 26th Infantry Division was stationed in nearby military barracks. The regiment took part in the Battle of Bzura during the defensive war in 1939.

Manor house from the 2nd half of the 19th century At the beginning of the 20th century it belonged to Henryk Chlipalski, later to Władysław Strakacz, owner of the brewery in Skierniewice. The building in the neo-Renaissance style, made of brick, single-storey with a residential attic, on a rectangular plan with an extension in the southern part. At the front it has two projections with triangular gables and in the middle a two-arcade portico with a terrace supported by two pillars and a Tuscan column. Roofs - gable.

The reservoir on the Skierniewka (Łupia) River is already visible on maps of Skierniewice from the 15th century. Initially, the reservoir was located near the village of Dęba, which was later incorporated into the city of Skierniewice. It was practically untouched by humans until the second half of the 20th century. It was not until the 1970s that its lower section was excavated near Zadębie Street and the Zadębie district. As part of the reservoir's renovation carried out in the years 1996-1999, the current reservoir bowl was shaped.

A building in Skierniewice, representative of the architecture of the 19th and early 20th centuries, built in 1893. In 1910, the right wing of the villa was added. During World War II, the building housed a German criminal police station, and after the end of the war, a citizen's militia station. In 1976, the eclectic villa was entered into the register of historical monuments. In the early 1980s, the villa was thoroughly renovated.