Mistrzejowice-Bienczyce

Mistrzejowice-Bieńczyce was incorporated into Kraków in 1951 as a neighbourhood of Nowa Huta. Mistrzejowice was developed in the 1960s and 1980s to the design of architect Witold Cęckiewicz.

One of the most characteristic modern Kraków churches, known as the “Ark of the Lord”, was built in Bieńczyce in the 1960s/70s, mostly thanks to the effort of the then Archbishop of Kraków, Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II. The area around the churches in the two districts were the battlegrounds of Nowa Huta’s Solidarity anti-communist grassroots movement in the 1980s.