Tag: Baroque

The Church of St. John the Baptist, which is located in the agricultural town of Snov, was built in 1760 by order of the owner of this area, Jan Kryshtof Rdutlovsky. There is another version, according to which the church was rebuilt on the site of its predecessor...

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...

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...

The church in Golshany is an architectural monument of the early 17th century. The original version of the temple was built by order and at the expense of Pavel Stefan Sapieha. In 1618, he invited the monks of the Franciscan order for whom he built ...

In the Volozhin district, Minsk region, there is an urban-type settlement of Ivenets. One of the main attractions of which is the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. Ivenets church is known as "White". Erected in the middle of the 18th century under the command of Count Jan Sollogub,...

Novogrudok is one of the oldest cities in Belarus, which was founded in the 10th century. Unfortunately, the Novogrudok castle has practically not survived to our time, only ruins remain. But other historical monuments survived in the city....