Places

The Church of the Body of God

In 1865, the Intercession Church was built of brick in the pseudo-Russian style. The Neo-Baroque Church of the Body of God was built of brick in 1904. It is worth visiting the Protasevich family cemetery, founded here in the early 19th century. There is a tombstone with a statue of an angel, which needs urgent restoration.

Church of the Mother of God

Church of the Mother of God of Ruzhantsova

A famous settlement from the 16th century. The Sapiehs owned it. In 1898, the Church of Our Lady of Ruzhantsova in the Neo-Gothic style was built of brick and stone. Closed in 1945, restored and returned to Catholics in 1997, the cemetery houses an 18th-century memorial chapel. In 1890, the Church of St. Peter was built of brick. Nicholas in the retrospective Russian style. A stone fence with a gate. A two-storey outbuilding has also been preserved here.

The Church of Our Lady of Wallpaper

A stone manor house (1862), outbuildings and a chapel-tomb of the lords of the estate in the classical style (1862) have been preserved from the former Miloshev estate. The village is decorated with the majestic Church of the Mother of God in the Art Nouveau style, built of stone and brick in 1937. The village is located next to Lake Idolta.

Church of the Immaculate Conception

Church of the Virgin Mary

The Church of the Virgin Mary was built in the classical style in 1848. The authorities wanted to prevent the shrine from being built, but thanks to A. Svetchin, the temple was erected. In 1868, the church was rebuilt as a church. In 1952, the church was closed and only by 1990 it was restored and reopened as a church. The manor house and several outbuildings of the 19th century have been preserved. A wooden Catholic chapel can be seen in the cemetery.

Church of the Virgin Mary

In 1849, on the site of a wooden church that once stood here, a new church of the Virgin Mary in the Classical style with Gothic elements was erected from field stone. After the suppression of the uprising of 1863-1864, the tsarist authorities closed the church. In 1912, repair and restoration work was carried out. There is a two-tiered bell tower next to the temple, which was built a few years later. Not far from the church is the wooden administration building of the gmina (1906).

Church of the Virgin Mary

In 1769, a brick church in the Baroque style was erected at the Bernardine monastery. In 1831, the monastery buildings were closed, and a few years later the church was significantly rebuilt and transferred to the Orthodox Church. The once single-nave church with two bell towers is now in ruins. There is a medical facility in the buildings of the monastery.

Church of the Virgin Mary

Church of the Virgin Mary

Like all old settlements, the village is very compact and fits comfortably into the surrounding landscape. The unique wooden church of the Virgin Mary was built in the style of folk architecture with Baroque features in 1738. In 1866 it was adapted as a church, but in 1930 it was returned to Catholics. Nearby, the brick tomb chapel of the lords of the local Yazvin estate, built in the classical style in 1864, has been preserved in good condition.

Church of the Virgin Mary

The brick church of the Virgin Mary in the historicism style was erected in this village in 1926. The church building has the shape of a Latin cross. The austere light silhouette of the church on a hill among old chestnut trees adorns the surrounding landscape. On the edge of the village, at the crossroads of roads, there is a brick roadside chapel, built in 1863. On the facade of the chapel is the number 33 and the inscription: “God is with us.”

Church of the Virgin Mary

Not far from the village is the Church of the Virgin Mary in the Gothic Revival style, built of red brick in 1905. The church stands on the site of an ancient temple in 1497. Not far from the church you can find a roadside chapel made of brick and stone (1810) and a small spring with cold water.

Church of the Virgin Mary

In 1763, a brick church of the Virgin Mary in the late Baroque style was built on the site of the old wooden church. There is a stone fence with three-turn gates around the temple. Before the Second World War, the church had more than 6 thousand parishioners. There is a crypt under the apse of the church. A special decoration of the temple is the mosaic floor, which, at the insistence of the faithful, was not laid with new tiles during the restoration in 1979.

Church of the Virgin Mary

On the edge of the village, on a small natural hill, on which, according to local legend, a pagan temple once stood, stands the three-nave Church of the Virgin Mary with two huge four-sided bell towers. The church was built of brick in the Neo-Gothic style in 1910. The church is surrounded by a stone fence with a triple brick gate. Vaclav Lastovsky, a Belarusian writer, historian, and philologist, was baptized in this church.

The Jesuit Church: plebs

The plebania brick building in the classical style with Baroque elements was built in the middle of the XVI century. By the end of the 19th century. it has been rebuilt several times. Since the middle of the XVIII century. and for about half a century, the famous Nesvizh printing house worked in the building, in which, perhaps much earlier (1562-1571), the famous church reformer and printer Simon Budny operated. Restoration work is underway here today.

Holy Cross Church

Church of the Mother of God

This wooden Catholic church in the classical style with Baroque elements was built in 1904. It was supposed to be a temporary church next to the place where they were planning to build a brick church soon. However, this was prevented by the arrival of Soviet power, during which, of all the Catholic shrines in the city, this one was the only one in operation.

Church of the Mother of God Ruzhentsova

Church of the Mother of God Ruzhentsova

Near a small village square, opposite a modest park, stands the Church of the Mother of God Ruzhentsova in the Art Nouveau style, built of brick and stone. In 2002, the wall painting in the temple was rewritten. This temple resembles a fabulous gingerbread house.

Church of the Shkaplernaya Mother of God

The Baroque-style Shkaplernaya Church of the Mother of God was built of brick in 1754. In 1866, it was rededicated as an Orthodox church. It was returned to Catholics in 1920. It was closed from 1945 to 1989. Today, the temple has been restored and is open to believers. Nearby is the residential building of the Carmelite monastery (XVIII century). In the cemetery you can see the chapel-tombstone of the Bykhovites (1820). The Jewish cemetery has also been preserved in the town.

The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary Elizabeth

The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary Elizabeth was built of wood in the Baroque style in 1809. It was closed in 1961. It was returned to Catholics in 1975. Nearby you can see the tomb chapel of Shukevich (XIX century) and a two-tiered wooden bell tower. According to legend, the icon of the Mother of God of Trocelles remained untouched after several fires that completely destroyed this temple.

Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

In 1920, the wooden church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Art Nouveau style was built here. In 2003, the temple was restored. St. George's Church, also wooden, was built in 1908 as a church on the foundations of an ancient wooden church, known since 1700. After the reconstruction, new domes appeared in the shrine. The picturesque Absterna Lake is located near the village.

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary

The settlement has been known since the 16th century. like the possessions of the Trabsky, Gashtold, Radziwill, Narbutov. Solid stone barns have been preserved from the former estate, which admire the quality of the masonry and the scale of the buildings. Opposite is a wooden barn with a full-length terrace. In 1900, the Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in the Neo-Gothic style was built of brick in the center of the village. The Church of Peter and Paul was built of wood in the style of folk architecture in 1784.

Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord

Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord

In 1770, the majestic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built of brick in the late Baroque style with elements of classicism. Today, the temple is being restored and restored. In 1785, a manor house in the classical style was erected in the village, on the Shirinov estate. The wooden Old Believers Assumption Church, built in 1926, has been preserved. Several houses of the ancestral buildings of the early twentieth century are still residential today.

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin

The settlement has been mentioned in written sources since the beginning of the XV century. Since 1683, the Jesuit Order built stone residential buildings and the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the late Baroque style here. Today it is an Orthodox monastery for men. The building of the Jesuit collegium has been preserved. In 1863, the church was closed and converted into an Orthodox church. Yurovichi is known as one of the oldest human settlements in Belarus (10th millennium BC).

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary

Of the religious buildings in the city, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, built in the classical style in 1809, has been preserved. In Soviet times, it was used as a warehouse and was returned to believers only in 1990. Several ancestral buildings have been preserved. In 1819, an Orthodox church in honor of St. Nicholas was built in the classical style. However, in 1895 it was significantly modified. It is believed that this shrine was originally built as a Catholic shrine.

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary

St. A. Baboni Church

The church of St. A. Baboni was built in the village of Shumsk (Lithuania). In 1938, he was moved to a permanent place of residence in the village of Gradovshchizna. A wooden shrine in the Art Nouveau style has been erected. Perhaps the temple originally looked different and changed its appearance, acquiring the features we know when it was built in a new location.