Ivye. The city is a legend where four religions have united.

There is an amazing town in the Grodno region where four religions have been peacefully living side by side for centuries.

Ivye is called the "place of three cultures" (and even four): Catholics, Orthodox, Muslims and Jews live here.

The main dominant feature of the city is the Church of Saints Peter and Paul.

The 15th-century temple was rebuilt by magnates and Bernardines, and acquired its current one in 1787, combining Gothic and Baroque. The main curiosity is a scaled-down copy of the Brazilian Christ (2002), for which the townspeople nicknamed the town as Ivye-de-Janeiro. The church was not closed even during the Soviet years, having preserved the ancient frescoes, six altars and a 17th-century tiled stove.

The phenomenon of peaceful neighborhood is immortalized in the monument "Unity of four Faiths". This is not just a sculpture, but a reminder: interfaith marriages are still common in Ivye, and communities avoid conflicts.

It is worth continuing the walk at the "Wheel of History" on September 17th street.

This is a stone chronicle of 14 boulders about the key events of the city. The place was chosen for a reason - there was an entrance to the ghetto here, which gives the monument a special meaning.

The best place to immerse yourself in history is at the Ivye Museum of National Cultures.

Its exposition is divided into three halls: historical (with a working copy of an 18th-century Batleika - folk puppet theater), Tatar (a mock-up of a mosque, an ancient Koran) and Jewish. The Belarusian Jews hall is stylized like a shtetl: the Star of David is burning here, and you can look into miniature houses and see scenes of preparation for Shabbat.

The city also has the oldest wooden mosque in Belarus (1882). Built at the expense of Countess Zamoyskaya, she never stopped working. Nearby is the ancient mizar (cemetery), which preserves the memory of the Tatars, descendants of the warriors of Vytautas, who have lived here for more than 600 years.