Tag: monastery

One of the main attractions of the Mogilev region is the Assumption Monastery, which consists of several churches, a bell tower, monastic cells and various outbuildings, and this complex is located in the small village of Pustynki. In fact, Pustynki owes its history to...

Kholopenichi is a medium-sized urban settlement in the Krupsky district, Minsk region. The first mention of the town dates back to the middle of the 15th century, and over a long history these lands passed from one prominent family to another. However...

The ancient town of Lyskovo was mentioned in history at the very beginning of the 16th century, and a number of sights remind of a rich and eventful history: a settlement, a wooden church and, of course, a former missionary monastery with the ruins of the Trinity Church. There is information...

You can't tell at first glance, but Derechin, Zelvensky district, is an old place with a 600-year history. In addition to classical sights like a church and a neo-Gothic church, the agro-town also has mysterious lost objects - a Dominican monastery...

The agro-town Imenin in the Drogichinsky district used to be called Torokan and has been known in chronicles since the beginning of the 16th century. The fame of this place was provided by the monks of the Basilian order, who had a large monastery in these parts, built with the support of...

One of the attractions of the urban village of Osveya is part of the former missionary monastery, or rather the surviving hospital building. Missionary monks were invited to these parts in the second half of the 18th century by Jan August Gilsen, then the owner of the town. Activity...

Near the Grodno Regional Drama Theater there is an interesting building with a rather unusual pediment. Now the Priorbank branch is located here, but earlier the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built at the monastery of the Carmelite Order, stood on this site. To the territory of Belarus...

The Bernardine monks began their mission in Slutsk in the first half of the 17th century with the support of Samuel Oskerko, the headman of Mozyr. For the construction of the future monastery, he bought out part of the land next to his Slutsk estate, and in ...

One of the most recognizable sights of Vitebsk is the Assumption Cathedral, which rises on the banks of the Western Dvina. The temple that can be seen today is a restored copy. The history of the cathedral begins at the end of the 17th century, when...

A little further from the center of Slutsk used to be an impressive complex of the Trinity Cathedral. This male Orthodox monastery was founded in the middle of the 15th century, but there are also bolder assumptions that send us back to the first half...