Ivenets. St. Michael the Archangel church.

In the small town of Ivenets, the white two-towered church of St. Michael the Archangel rises in the historical center. The Catholic church and the Franciscan monastery were built in the 18th century, and a stone wall and a tower with gates were built in front of them.

In 1702, Theodore Anthony Vankovich, the stolnik and podstarost of Minsk, financed the wooden church in Iventsa and the Franciscan monastery.

In the middle of the 18th century, a new stone church was being built next to the wooden church. The new church was built in the style of the late Vilna Baroque by the Ivanets philistine Anselm Chekhov. The temple was completed by 1749. The monastery and outbuildings occupied a large area, which were enclosed by a stone wall whose height was 3-6 meters and width was about one and a half meters. Among the outbuildings were wooden stables, a glacier with a barn and other buildings.

In the church, the side altar was consecrated in honor of Our Lady of Czestochowa. Three more altars were consecrated in 1769.

After the anti-Russian uprising of 1830-1831, the Franciscan monastery was closed by the authorities. And after the uprising of 1863-1864, the church was handed over to Orthodox believers and the church was consecrated in honor of the Holy Trinity. In 1920, when this region was under Polish rule, the church was returned to Catholics. In Soviet times, after the war in 1948, the church was closed. It was returned to the faithful in 1990, after which the restoration of the monument began.

The church is single-nave, has a three-dimensional structure in the form of a Latin cross. The main facade is decorated with 2 multi-tiered towers between which there is a figured barrack pediment. The monastery building is two-storied stone.