The biggest Evangelical Church in Poland
is the Church of Jesus in Cieszyn, erected in 1709 on the basis of Altransztat Agreement between the King of Sweden, Carl XII, and the Emperor Joseph I. The Church of Jesus has 3,500 seats and it can accommodate about 6 thousand people. The building of this late baroque church started in 1710 according to designs by Jan Jerzy Hausrücker, an architect from Opava. There are 8 churches in the centre of Cieszyn; 7 Catholic and one Protestant. The oldest of them is the parish church under the invocation of St. Maria Magdalene (former Dominican), whose beginnings date back to the 13th century.