This building from Poland is three-stories tall. But it is probably shorter than you. Your hands are wider than the building’s windows. Its chimneys are not much bigger than your ears. How can this be?

To explain, we have to go back in history. Once, gorgeous buildings filled Warsaw, the capital of Poland. People called the city “the Paris of the North.” But then Warsaw saw war—lots of it. In September of 1939, bombs destroyed one out of every five of Warsaw’s buildings. Once, royalty lived in a huge Warsaw palace. But Germans blew it up in 1944. In time, more and more of the beautiful city crumbled. Warsaw just hasn’t been the same since. Some buildings are damaged. Many are gone. The people replaced the destroyed buildings. But the replacements are modern and bland.

Builder Rafal Kunach is changing all that. He decided to create 50 mini models of Warsaw’s lost architecture. He wants people to remember Warsaw’s glory days. He also wants to show how much war costs everyone. Because of war, no one will see the lovely buildings again—at least, not full-size.

Mr. Kunach has loved city models since he was a kid. But now he has a serious project on his hands. He has a team of historians, architects, and builders. They have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars—on just 10 replicas.

Can Mr. Kunach’s model show Warsaw life in perfect detail? No way! Mr. Kunach makes precise models. From far away they look just like the old buildings. But the closer you look, the less detail you see. The Warsaw models offer a bird’s-eye view, not a God’s-eye view. God can see everything in the universe. He looks deep into every crack and crevice. And what’s even more amazing—He cares about what He finds! What a great God!