Tag: cemetery

Wooden architecture of Belarus is a special pleasure and aesthetics. We have plenty of wooden churches, but there are also unique examples, such as the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Kemelishki. The temple is mysterious in its own way, and its history is full of gaps...

At the entrance to Lyakhovichi, from the side of Baranovichi, attention is drawn to a large cemetery where curious ruins can be seen. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that this is the Soltanov chapel-tomb and a more modest building - the tomb of Dominik Reitan. Both names...

Somewhere on the northeastern border of Nalibokskaya Pushcha there is the agro-town of Nalibki, Stolbtsy district, where you can see an interesting church. The place itself is quite old, it was mentioned in the chronicles already in the middle of the 15th century, and over the long history here...

One of the oldest towns in the Molodechno region is today’s agricultural town of Gorodok, the first mention of which dates back to the mid-12th century (1161). Here you can see part of the ordinary buildings, a church, an ancient Jewish cemetery...

Not far from the fortress walls of Gediminas Castle in Lida there is an interesting attraction that is often not given any attention - this is an ancient cemetery with the chapel of St. Barbara. The history of the place dates back to the second half of the 18th century...

One of the sights of the agro-town Novodevyatkovichi is an old Catholic cemetery where there are two chapels-tombs. One was probably built for the Slug family, and the second for representatives of the middle gentry - Kollupailo. A more refined tomb belonged to Ludwig Kollupailo, was built...

Ruzhany is well known for its main attraction - the Sapieha Palace, but there are plenty of other interesting objects in the urban village. For example, not far from the historical center there is a small church of St. Casimir, which was built at the end of...

At the entrance to Derechin from Zelva (road P142) pay attention to the old Jewish cemetery. In addition to traditional tombstones, there are several small brick tombs (?) here. The cemetery was partially ennobled in 2012, cutting down weeds,...

Not far from the historical center of the city of Vileyka there is a cemetery, which is conditionally divided into 3 parts. The largest and oldest part of it is Orthodox, and the smaller one is called the military or "cemetery of 3 wars". Here...

In the small village of Puzynovtsy, Shchuchinsky district, you can see the old family cemetery of the Pavlovsky family. It was from this family that the famous writer Eliza Ozheshko came out. Puzynovtsy, the neighboring villages of Zalesna, Glubokoe, Lupiny, and also Milkovshchina were part of ...