National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
Catholic shrine in Pennsylvania
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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 in New Britain Township, Pennsylvania, near Doylestown, 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.
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New Britain, Pennsylvania
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
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New Britain Township, Pennsylvania
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0.7 mi awayPine Valley Covered Bridge
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