Church in Lipiany from the 13th century, rebuilt in the 19th century on a Latin-cross plan, with an organ by Sauer-Walcker and a Gothic sculpture of St Peter.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lipiany was built in the 13th century of granite ashlar. In the 19th century it was pulled down and put up anew, so today's plan is not medieval.
Of the original layout only fragments of the walls in the chancel remained. The walls were laid again from the original building material and from erratic and hewn stones, and the chancel part and the surrounds of the windows, portals and cornices were made of brick. The added transept gave the building a Latin-cross plan. The east and west gables and the gables of the transept arms are stepped and decorated with blind niches. At the west stands a square tower with a clock and three 19th-century bells, of granite ashlar at the bottom and brick higher up.
The ceiling is a plafond one. On the west gallery stands an organ by the firm of Sauer-Walcker with gilding, and there are also galleries in the arms of the transept. In the chancel there is a wooden altar with a 19th-century painting of the Last Supper, and in its right wing a Gothic sculpture of St Peter from the 15th century. After the war the church was consecrated as a Catholic one on 19 August 1945.
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