Sokołów poviat - poviat in Poland, in Mazowieckie voivodship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Sokołów Podlaski.
Coat of arms of the Sokołów poviat
An administrative division
The poviat consists of 9 communes:
urban communes: Sokołów Podlaski urban-rural communes: Kosów Lacki rural communes: Sokołów Podlaski, Sterdyń, Repki, Bielany, Jabłonna Lacka, Sabnie, Ceranów towns: Sokołów Podlaski, Kosów Lacki
Neighboring counties
Siedlce poviat Węgrów poviat Ostrów poviat Wysokomazowiecki poviat (Podlasie) Siemiatycze poviat (Podlasie)
Worth seeing
in Sokołów Podlaski
Monuments Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary st. John Bosco
wooden chapel with a figure of St. John of Nepomuk from 1802, ul. Siedlecka, a brick palace from 1857, designed by Henryk Marconi, a former synagogue from the second half of the 19th century, rebuilt after 1945, a statue of priest general Stanisław Brzóski from 1925, erected in the place of the execution of the last January insurgents, the Salesian Church of St. Jan Bosco from 1935–1939 in a modernist style, designed by Bruno Zborowski, the church of Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (co-cathedral) from 1948–1953, built in the neo-Gothic style according to the design of Aleksander Boni. Inside, a stoup from the 16th century. The church was built on the site of the church of st. Michael from 1806, a classicist belfry from the 19th century. Synagogue in Sokołów Podlaski, ul. Długa 29 Synagogue in Sokołów Podlaski (ul. Magistracka 4) Old Jewish cemetery in Sokołów Podlaski New Jewish cemetery in Sokołów Podlaski Orthodox church of the Protection of the Mother of God in Sokołów Podlaski wooden house from the mid-19th century, ul. Długa 55 wooden house from the beginning of the 19th century, ul. Repkowska 30 Roman Catholic cemetery from the first half of the 19th century, ul. Chopin