The first bricks in the foundation of this Orthodox church were laid in 1873, but the construction dragged on for a long 10 years. The Holy Resurrection Church in Oshmyany became a replacement for the wooden predecessor church, which still remembered the times of the Dominican monks. Oshmyany Church was built in...

Next to the Church of the Holy Trinity, the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1864. This is the second most important temple in this area. The Church of the Intercession in Benitsa was built from natural rubble stone by representatives of the Shvykovsky family. Architectural...

Among the numerous sights of Grodno, the Holy Intercession Cathedral, located on Eliza Ozheshko Street, is sometimes lost. The construction of the temple was carried out in the first half of the 20th century and completed in 1905 in memory of the soldiers who died during the Russo-Japanese War. Architect...

Trinity Church in the village of Monastyr Trinity Church in the village of Monastyr, or Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity. In 2015, the restoration work is almost completely completed. The church is located in the picturesque village of Monastyr, Vitebsk region, near the R-25 highway. The temple was built in...

Beshenkovichi is an urban settlement in the Vitebsk region, the road here from Minsk will take about 2 and a half hours. Vitebsk is much closer than 50 kilometers and only about 40 minutes. In the village there is an interesting attraction - the church ...

The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian (also in some sources, Saints Cosmas and Demian) in the agricultural town of Snov begins its history in 1769. It was then that Jan Kryshtof Rdultovsky, the then owner of this place, decided to build on...

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul was built in the 1830s on the outskirts of the village of Starinki by order of Alexander Lensky, who at that time owned the area. Initially, the now abandoned church in Starinki was built as a church and...

Freedom Square in Minsk is one of the oldest and historically interesting places in the capital. It has existed for over 400 years. The square appeared at the beginning of the 16th century. For a long time it was considered the main administrative, commercial and cultural...

Stone crosses are an unusual monument to the history of the early Middle Ages, which you must see when you are in Turov. The city, which was first mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years in 980, contains many tales and legends...

The Pinsk St. Barbarian Monastery was first mentioned in the first half of the 16th century, when the Pinsk prince Feodor Yaroslavich donated the nearby villages of Vysokoye, Goltsy, Duboi, Lisotsk and the Piskalovshchina courtyard to the monastery. The buildings of that time were mostly built of wood. IN...