Editing Kalisz (section)

== Religion ==
[[File:Kalisz Saint Nicholas Cathedral 2019 P03 aerial view.jpg|thumb|right|Saint Nicholas Cathedral in the Old Town]]
There are 19 [[Catholic church]]es, five [[Protestantism|Protestant churches]], and one [[Eastern Orthodox church]] in Kalisz. The city contains the [[Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Bishop in Kalisz|Cathedral of St. Nicholas]]. Synagogues were built in Kalisz beginning in 1698, and a New Synagogue was built in 1879.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PrxtAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22new+synagogue%22+kalisz&pg=PA297|title = The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times|year = 1942|publisher = Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Incorporated}}</ref> Before [[World War II]] there were 25,000 Jews in Kalisz, but most of them were murdered by Germans in [[the Holocaust in Poland]] and by the summer of 1942 the Jewish community in Kalisz was entirely destroyed.