Gubino. Ruins of St. Anthony's Church.

In 1714, a church and monastery of the Franciscan Order were built in Gubino, thanks to the financing of the Polotsk stolnik Jan Pakosh. A year later, Bishop Brzhostovsky conducted the consecration ceremony of the church in honor of St. Anthony. The architecture of the church was distinguished by its cruciform shape, and its facade was crowned by two towering towers.

In 1833, by decree of the tsarist authorities, the Franciscan monastery ceased its activities. The last divine service in the church took place in 1929. Subsequently, the buildings of the temple and the adjacent monastery building were transferred to the use of the local collective farm. First, a club was organized in the church, and then it was used as a storage room. In the 1960s, this Baroque architectural monument began to be gradually dismantled into bricks.

In the early 1960s, the church in Gubino was blown up. According to local resident Anatoly Sobol, who was a teenager at the time, there were several attempts to destroy the temple, first with a powerful military tractor, later with collective farm tractors. But the military arrived and completed the destruction, destroying the Guba church with explosives. And even after that, only one tower and a fragment of the wall remained standing.

Today, only a part of the tower and a fragment of the presbytery wall have been preserved from the former greatness of the church. The monastery building has completely disappeared.