Downtown Columns you can see not only an unusual cinema, but also an interesting mural, which depicts a rather strange temple with two different towers. This is an antique Church of Saint Casimir, which was located on the site of today's stadium on Leninskaya Street.
The history of the church begins in the mid-17th century, when a mission of Dominican monks arrived in Stolbtsy. As often happened, the monks first erected a small wooden residential building, and used an old temple in neighboring Kovalevshchina for prayers (by the way, a small homestead). Over the course of several decades, the Dominican mission grew and work began on the construction of a stone church.
It is quite possible that the temple was rebuilt in the first half of the 17th century under the new owners of Stolbtsy - the Czartoryskis. The architecture of the church belongs to the early Baroque style, of which very few examples have survived in Belarus.
After the uprising of 1830, the Dominican monastery in Stolbtsy was liquidated, and 40 years later the church building was rebuilt as an Orthodox church. A porch will be added to the main volume, a light drum will appear on the roof, and a huge tower will rise above the pediment. The new appearance of the temple will not be unique; similar reconstructions were found everywhere (especially similar church in Krivoshin).
In 1921, Stolbtsy was part of Interwar Poland, so the ancient church was returned to the Catholic community, and then phased work began on the restoration of the church. It was during that period that the temple had two different towers.
During the Second World War, the building was partially destroyed, it was no longer restored, and in 1958 the ruins were finally dismantled. Today, on the site where the Church of St. Casimir stood, a copy of the gate, visible in many old photographs, was erected.
Below is a dot marking the place where the church was located in Stolbtsy:
The city is still worth seeing Church of St. Anne and stop by the Yakub Kolas Museum.
