Gedžiūnėliai Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
A chapel was built in Gedžiūnėliai in 1921. It was an elongated house with a gable roof, an entrance door at the back, and windows divided into three sections. Until 1931, services were held once a month.
Archbishop Romualdas Jalbžikovskis granted permission to establish a parish on the condition that services would be conducted in Polish. The local residents disagreed. From 1931 onward, services were held regularly. In 1939, the priest of Daugėliškis, Petras Budra, moved to Gedžiūnėliai, and for a time the chapel served as the church of the Gedžiūnėliai–Daugėliškis parish. During that period, construction of a new church was started. Due to poor health, Father Budra requested to be transferred to another parish. Through the efforts of Father Karolis Gumbaragis, the parish was established in 1941, and in 1943 a new church was built by adapting the structure of the old chapel. After 1966, the church was renovated and repainted under the care of Father Jonas Kardelis.
The church is in the form of a traditional residential house — rectangular in plan, with a single nave and a single tower. The building includes a small belfry tower, a three-sided apse, and an attached sacristy. The main façade faces southwest. The main entrance is located at the front of the building, accessible through a glazed veranda. The churchyard is enclosed by a fence made of unhewn stones with iron gates.
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