Cmentarz Szpitala Dzieciątka Jezus, Warszawa

This sandstone obelisk commemorates patients of the Infant Jesus Hospital who were buried in its former cemetery. Its pedestal preserves a prayer, a plan of the burial ground, and inscriptions recalling the monument’s move to Lindleya Street and the reburial of the dead at Saint Vincent’s Cemetery.

At the junction of Lindleya and Nowogrodzka streets, this slender sandstone obelisk preserves the memory of the Infant Jesus Hospital cemetery. It was erected in seventeen ninety-nine for about thirty thousand patients buried by the hospital when it occupied plac Warecki, today’s Powstańców Warszawy Square. Notice the three-tiered base, the rectangular pedestal, and the tapering shaft capped with a cross.

The panel facing the street retains the memorial’s original prayer for those who died in the hospital. A diagram on the reverse records the former cemetery as an irregular four-sided plot, with its boundaries measured in old Polish cubits. When the hospital transferred to Lindleya Street in nineteen oh one, the monument came here with it.

Inscriptions on its sides also record that the dead were reburied at Saint Vincent’s Cemetery. The obelisk entered the heritage register in nineteen sixty-five, leaving this modest marker to carry an immense history of care, illness, and burial through modern Warsaw.