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Logoisk. The Church of St. Casimir.

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Church

Belarus, Minsk region, Logoisk, Sovetskaya str., 3

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The Church of St. Casimir in Logoysk is brand new, built in 1999 in the Neo-Gothic style. But besides its visual beauty, it has a rich history. For four centuries, Catholic churches on this site were built, destroyed, and reborn, like the Phoenix bird.

The previous stone church was built at the end of the 18th century by Count Alexander Tyshkevich, who converted to the Catholic faith. The family tomb of the Tyshkevich family was also located here. In Soviet times, the temple was blown up, along with the family crypt. Only a slab remains of the old church, which is now embedded in one of the new walls, as well as the grave of Konstantin Tyshkevich, who was buried separately at will.

The modern structure has an unusual appearance, with an asymmetrically elongated 4-sided bell tower attached to the main volume from one of the facades.

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Historical

Location

Latitude: 54.20345864
Longitude: 27.85285997

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Logoisk. The Church of St. Casimir.

In 1609, Alexander Yuryevich Tyshkevich, the grandson of the founder of the famous magnate family, converted to Catholicism and, as a sign of the transition to the Latin rite, founded a church in Logoysk under the title of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Casimir. The temple was built on a hill across the Gaina River. Then it was a small wooden shrine that burned down during the war with Russia in 1655, but was rebuilt and destroyed again during the Swedish invasion in 1706. In 1709, the wooden church was again elevated above Logoysk. A parish school, a hospital, and the Brotherhood of the Heart of Jesus, founded in 1747, operated at the Logoi Church.

 

On April 17, 1787, Count Tyshkevich began the construction of a new stone church in Logoysk. His son Vikenty completed the construction and on October 20, 1793, the new church in the Classical style was consecrated under the former title of St. Casimir. The new building was partially similar to the old building. The peculiarity of the church is that the altars were painted with the effect of optical illusions on absolutely flat walls.

 

In 1806, a tall clock tower appeared above the portico of the main facade of the shrine, moved here from the abolished Logoi Town Hall. In the crypt under the church, many generations of Tyshkevich found rest. The church was one of the oldest family tombs in Belarus.

 

The Church of St. Casimir operated until the 1950s, but after it was closed and dismantled over time. In the late 1980s, a cross was erected and believers began to seek permission to build a new church. In the summer of 1999, construction work ended, and on June 19, the church was again illuminated under the title of St. Casimir. A bell tower is asymmetrically attached to the left of the entrance.

 

Next to the temple there is the grave of Count K. Tyshkevich, above which there is a monument.

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