Your personal bike guide
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Your personal bike guide
The museum of the Society of African Missions is located in a provincial house of the Centre of African Missions. Its construction was conducted between 2014 and 2018 and on the 15th of September it was blessed by metropolitan archbishop of Warsaw Kazimierz Nycz. The history of the Society of African Missions (SAM) dates back to the middle of the 19th century – it was established on the 8th of December 1856 in Lyon by bishop Melchior de Marion-Brésillaca as a Roman-Catholic association conducting mission work in Africa. The beginnings of the society’s operation in Poland date back to 1931 – before the war, the society owned a mission house in Ninin in Wielkopolska (Little Seminary of African Missions). The house’s operation was terminated by the Hitlerian aggression and after the war, the entirety of assets was confiscated by the government. It wasn’t until the 1980s that the society’s authorities sent priests to Poland, their task was to re-establish the local centre. The fruit of their labour was the establishment of the Polish Fund of SAM in 1989, purchasing property in Borzęcin Duży near Warsaw in 1990 and construction of a retreat house in Piwniczna-Zdrój in 2003. Following the decision of the General Assembly, on the 1st of June 2019, the Polish house became the seat of the independent Polish Province of SAM. Currently it consists of 24 priests serving in Europe and four African countries. The museum of SAM in Borzecin Duży contains numerous exhibits brought from African missions, an exhibition of African art (masks and everyday tools) as well as exhibitions providing information on the activity and involvement of the priests preaching gospel in Africa.
"The web service promoting the cultural resources of the region based on cycling tourism" is co-financed by the European Union (European Fund for Regional Development) within the Regional Operational Programme for the Mazowsze Region for 2014-2020.
