Gorodishche. The Benedictine Monastery.

There is a Gorodishche village in Pinsk district, which is located on the shore of the lake. In the 18th and 19th centuries, an architectural complex of a church and a Catholic monastery was built in the Settlement. In 1662, the Catholic Benedictine Order built a wooden monastery and a church. In the 18th century, the construction of a stone Catholic church began, which was built with the money of the monastery. In 1775, the church was consecrated in honor of St. Anna.

The stone monastery building was also built along with the church. After the anti–Russian uprising of Kastus Kalinovski in 1863-1864, the church and monastery were closed by order of the tsarist authorities and handed over to officials to dismantle the buildings for bricks. The monastery was dismantled, but the Catholic faithful were not allowed to demolish the church.

In 1903, landowner V. Teodorovich became the owner of the estate, who, together with Catholic believers, supported the idea of reviving the church. The church was consecrated in 1905. Then the church was closed again due to, as officials said, the poor condition of the building. It was only during the time of the Polish state in the 1920s that the church was restored and services resumed.

The unique architectural monument was blown up during the war in 1944 by the Nazi invaders, who blew up the church during their retreat. The stone gate and fence were preserved after the war, but these buildings were gradually dismantled into bricks. The stone economic building of the monastery has been preserved to our time, which was converted into a priest house at the beginning of the 20th century. And after the war, a psychiatric hospital was built in the building.