The Christian habit of taking over former native church cult places and, where possible, desecrating the various holy of holies by making them part of the new temple (usually placed in demonstrative disregard of symmetry) is well documented. The side benefit of this “power move” has been that it helped preserve a number of native monuments. Of course, these days it’s nearly impossible to distinguish the local cultic from the merely local elements that were made part of various churches’ stonework. Here is are a couple of examples from the church at Sierpc, northwest of Warsaw (the so-called Farny church of Saint Vitas, etc, etc):
Pretty wacky.
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