History of the Parish of Dawidowo and the Parish Church of St. Stanislaus. St Stanislav Church
The history of the village of Davidov, situated near Lviv, dates back to the beginning of the 15th century. The parish is not much younger than that, having been founded in 1439. Initially, the parish belonged to the Lviv deanery. In 1659, the Dominicans took over pastoral care of the parish until 1815, after which time lay priests led the parish until the 20th century.

The structure of the first parish church was wooden. Before 1600, however, it was replaced by a masonry structure, funded by an unknown founder named Dawidowski. Further information about the building comes from the early 18th century and mentions the existence of three altars in the church. However, we know that in 1741 there were already five altars in the church in Dawidów: the main one, St Stanislaus, St Michael the Archangel, St Catherine, St Mary and St Barbara. The temple was also equipped with a pulpit, organ and pews. The records of the deanery visitation, which took place twenty years later, again recorded only three altars, two of which (the side altars) were painted on the walls. The wooden main altar had a painting depicting St Stanislaus.

The Church of St Stanislaus in Dawidów was not consecrated until 1774. At that time there were again three altars, of which the side altars were painted on the walls, but had paintings painted in oil on canvas (these were paintings depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Virgin Mary).

In 1785, the Austrian authorities commissioned an inventory of the church, when a similar state of furnishings as in 1774 was noted. In the same year, the Austrian authorities confiscated the silver infusion from the painting depicting St Stanislaus, and in 1810 the church silver (the lower parts of the monstrance, the tinsel, the silver chalice and the cross) were confiscated. In 1816 it was recorded that almost all the silver was given to the monetary office.

Reconstruction and history in the 20th century
The later fate of the church is unclear. We know that in the 1930s the church was rebuilt on the initiative of Father Sadowski - the building was extended at the front (the nave received three more bays) and a new vestry was built. Although the main part of the extension was completed in 1934, finishing works continued until 1937.

After the Second World War, in 1946, Father Sadowski left Dawidów for Legnica. Most of the church furnishings were moved to the Holy Trinity Church there. In the following decades, the church was abandoned and now serves as an Orthodox church. The furnishings taken away after 1946 have not been found to this day.

Architecture
The brick and oriented building of St. Stanislaus Church was built of broken stone and brick. It is located in the centre of the village, on a small hill. It consists of a nave with five bays and a lower and narrower single-span chancel, to which two rooms containing the sacristy were added. The nave of the church was vaulted with a cross vault, the chancel has a collector vault.

The west bay of the nave has a choir supported by two pillars. The space under the choir is occupied by a porch and a storage room.

The church has a single-storey and tripartite façade surmounted by a gable. Its central field is risalitic, with a portal at the bottom. The nave facades on the other sides are topped with a profiled cornice, as are the chancel facades.

The nave of the church has a high, gabled roof, while the chancel and annexes have multi-pitched roofs. All are covered with sheet metal.

The church has an independently standing brick and plastered bell tower.

Equipment:
Today we know the former furnishings of the church only from archival records. After it was taken away to Silesia after the Second World War, it could not be found.

An inventory of the church from the end of the interwar period, in accordance with earlier accounts, mentions three altars: a wooden main altar of neo-Gothic forms and two side altars, which were painted on the walls. They had oil paintings depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Virgin Mary and were decorated with stucco sculpture.

Other church equipment includes a wooden neo-Gothic pulpit, an organ, three feretrons with oil paintings on canvas and one with a wooden sculpture, and an oil painting of St. Theresa with Child. The parish church of St Stanislaus also had a polychrome wood carving depicting the Risen Christ and a terracotta carving depicting St Anthony.

The silver owned by the church was mostly confiscated by the Austrian authorities at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century.