Editing Białystok (section)

==Religion==
{{main|Religion in Białystok}}

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In the early 1900s, Białystok was reputed to have the largest concentration of Jews of all the cities in the world.<ref>{{cite book |title=Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe |last=Gruber |first=Ruth Ellen |year=2002 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, Calif. |isbn=0-520-21363-7 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULYXVHAtNeoC&pg=PA96 }}</ref> In 1931, 40,000 Jews lived in the city, nearly half the city's inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book |title=Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust |editor-last=Sterling |editor-first=Eric J. |year=2005 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |location=Syracuse, N.Y. |isbn=0-8156-0803-9 |page=226 |last=Feierstein |first=Daniel |chapter=The Jewish Resistance Movements in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywZG1TwqHwoC&pg=PA226 }}</ref>
The city is the seat of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Białystok]]. Pope John Paul II on 5 June 1991, during a visit to Białystok, announced the establishment of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Białystok|Archdiocese of Białystok]] which ended the period of the temporary church administration of the portion of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius|Archdiocese of Vilnius]] that had, after [[World War II]], remained within the Polish borders.<ref name=autonazwa3>{{cite web
| title = Archidiecezja Białostocka
| url = http://www.archibial.pl/
| access-date = 2011-04-15
| language = pl
| archive-date = 2011-04-25
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110425143328/http://archibial.pl/
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 }}</ref> The city is also the seat of the Białystok-Gdańsk Diocese of the [[Autocephalous]] [[Polish Orthodox Church]].<ref name="orthodox.bialystok.pl">{{cite web
| title = Polish Orthodox Diocese of Białystok-Gdańsk
| url = http://orthodox.bialystok.pl/en/
| access-date = 2011-04-15
| language = pl
| archive-date = 2021-01-24
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210124131703/http://orthodox.bialystok.pl/en
| url-status = dead
 }}</ref> Białystok is the largest concentration of Orthodox believers in Poland.<ref name="orthodox.bialystok.pl"/> In Białystok, the following Protestant churches exist: a Lutheran parish, two Pentecostal churches, Baptist church, a congregation of the Church of God in Christ and a Seventh Day Adventist church.<ref>{{cite web
| title = w Kościele Zielonoświątkowym "Dobra Nowina" ul. Kraszewskiego 37
| url = http://www.dobranowina.org/
| access-date = 2011-04-15
| language = pl
| archive-date = 2011-06-29
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629162219/http://dobranowina.org/
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 }}</ref>

Białystok is home to more than two thousand Muslims (mainly [[Lipka Tatars|Tatars]]). There is an Islamic Centre,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.islam-bialystok.dzs.pl/| title = Białystok Islamic Centre| access-date = 2013-03-22| archive-date = 2013-02-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130215042338/http://www.islam-bialystok.dzs.pl/| url-status = live}}</ref> a House of Prayer, and various organisations. There is a magazine issued – "{{lang|pl|Pamięć i trwanie}}" ("Memory and persistence").

The city is the site of the [[Divine Mercy Sanctuary (Białystok)|Divine Mercy Sanctuary]] with the main relics of [[Michał Sopoćko]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.faustyna.pl/zmbm/en/in-poland-shrines-of-divine-mercy/| title = The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy| access-date = 2019-05-30| archive-date = 2019-05-30| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190530145806/https://www.faustyna.pl/zmbm/en/in-poland-shrines-of-divine-mercy/| url-status = live}}</ref>

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File:PL BI cathedral 2.jpg|Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
File:Adalbert of Prague church in Białystok.jpg|Saint Adalbert church
File:Zmartwychwstania bialystok.jpg|Church of the Lord's Resurrection
File:Podlaskie - Białystok - Białystok - Antoniuk Fabryczny 45 - Kościół Wszystkich Świętych - Front.JPG|All Saints' Church
File:Białystok, ul. Lipowa, cerkiew p. w. św. Mikołaja, 1846 02.JPG|[[Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Białystok|Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas]]
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