Polish funerals-no coffins inside a church ??

Someone told me that in Poland the coffin is never brought inside the church.

It is only taken to a chapel (often found inside or nearby the cemetery).

Is this true ?

just from my experience - can't remember I have seen coffins in churches - before they built this special chapel where I lived as a kid - bodies were kept at homes

though not in a cupboard of course :P

in a coffin instead

Totally untrue! Every Catholic burial incldues a mass during which the coffin on a carafalque stands in front of the main altar. This may be at the parish church of the deceased or a cemtery chapel, as the family prefers.

I haven't seen a funeral in Poland without the coffin in Church. Unless the deceased wasn't much of a christian.

this seems to be true. unless it's a village with no chapel.

i've only been to one funeral in Poland... i thought it was just a small church we were in. it may have been a chapel though.