Wkład architekta Kazimierza Osińskiego w ochronę zabytków sakralnych w dobie autonomii Galicji i Polski międzywojennej.

The article deals with the activities of Kazimierz Osiński (1883–1956), an architect, museologist, social activist, publicist, and a man of letters. Being a resident of Przemyśl city and a graduate of the Lviv Polytechnic, he was a person valued among conservators and museologists. The article also renders his achievements in the conservation and design domain of sacral buildings and care and rescuing old churches’ architecture and equipment. The chronological framework of the article is the years 1909–1939, a fragment of the time of Halychyna Autonomy and interwar Poland, for Osiński – the years of the dynamic involvement in the preservation of historical monuments within the structure of museologists and conservators’ and scientific organizations. In the years of the Great War, he devoted himself to rescuing and cataloging monuments. Osiński’s deep involvement as a publicist i. e. dissemination of how to preserve and appreciate local objects of art and relevant conservation matters also deserves appreciation. Preservation and rescuing of the sacral architecture of two rites – the Latin and Eastern, and of the Judaism – were expressed in his broad social activity – at first as a representative of Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami (Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments) on behalf of Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk (Society of Friends of Learning) in Przemyśl, and in the time of the Great War also as an activist of Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami Sztuki i Kultury (Society for Preservation of the Monuments of Art and Culture in Lviv, and next – the architect for rebuilding of sacral edifices, and a member of Conservation Committee of the Lviv District and a deputy general conservator of the Lviv District for Przemyśl County.

care of heritage, conservation of monuments, Kazimierz Osiński, sacral architecture, sacral monuments.