"St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw"

Originally built in the 14th century in Masovian Gothic style, the cathedral served as a coronation and burial site for numerous Dukes of Masovia. The church was rebuilt several times, most notably in the 19th century, it was preserved until World War II as an example of English Gothic Revival. 

In 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising (August–October 1944), the cathedral was a place of struggle between insurgents and advancing German army.  The Germans managed to induct a tank loaded with explosives into the cathedral, a huge explosion destroyed large part of the building.  After the collapse of the Uprising, German Destruction Detachment drilled holes into the walls for explosives and blew up the cathedral destroying 90% of its walls.

The cathedral was rebuilt after the war. The exterior reconstruction is based on the 14th-century church's presumed appearance (according to an early-17th-century Hogenberg illustration