The Evangelical Church in Pisarzowice (Kościół ewangelicki w Pisarzowicach) is a ruined neo-Romanesque Protestant church built in 1901–1902 in the village of Pisarzowice in south-west Poland. It was founded by Prince Gustav Biron von Kurland as a memorial to his son Wilhelm (d. 1899) and designed by Berlin architect Arnold Hartmann, with interior works continuing until 1912. After 1945 the church was abandoned and, over the following decades, it fell into progressive ruin.

The Evangelical Church in Pisarzowice is the filming location used for Behemoth’s music video “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel” (from the 2014 album The Satanist). The video uses the church’s abandoned interior and ruined structure as a central visual setting, matching the song’s liturgical and ritual imagery, and the location has become closely associated with the band’s modern-era visual identity alongside its later use for the In Absentia Dei performance.

The Evangelical Church in Pisarzowice is also the location for Behemoth’s “In Absentia Dei” performance, filmed and streamed on 5 September 2020. The production was staged inside the church ruins as a four-act set designed specifically for the livestream format, and the recording was later released as an official live title under the same name.

ADDRESS:
Pisarzowice 44, 63-507 Pisarzowice, Poland

Behemoth – Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel (2014)

Behemoth – In Absentia Dei (2021)

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