Lunno. St. Anna's Church.

The Lunnens believe that the first church in their village was wooden and it was built in 1531 with donations from the wife of King Sigismund 1 of Lithuania, Grand Duchess of Lithuania, Queen of Poland Bona Sforza. It was Bona Sforza who founded the first church in these parts. In 1546, a Catholic parish was established here. A stone with a memorable date - 1546, which lies in front of the entrance to the temple, serves as a reminder of those events. One granite boulder has been preserved from the ancient foundation to the present day.

From 1838 to 1841, Father Pavel Khrenoshkevich, a friend of Adam Mickiewicz, served in the church. The services in this church were often attended by the famous Polish writer Eliza Ozheshko. Her box has been preserved in the church. The famous writer often visited the estate of her distant relatives in Lunno. Here she heard an amazing legend about Jan and Cecilia. She described an interesting story of their love and life in her novel "Over the Neman." Ozheshko mentions the unique icon of the Mother of God, which is located in the Lunnensky Church. The mystery of the rarity has not yet been solved: many symbols are concentrated on the ancient icon, and it consists of three "shirts".

Built during the time of the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the stone church has stood unchanged for more than 100 years. In 1895, it underwent a complete restoration. The church was thoroughly rebuilt in the architecture of late classicism. Historians believe that only the apse has been preserved from the predecessor temple. These works were supervised and sponsored by Pani Maria from the Drutsky-Lyubetsky family, who at that time were the owners of Lunno and the surrounding lands.

St. Anna's Church consists of a rectangular main volume and a pentagonal apse. The walls of the facades are lined with rubble stone. The temple is partially plastered, the skirting boards, cornices and corners of the pilasters are whitewashed. The interior has a composition elongated along the longitudinal axis. The temple is divided by two rows of columns into three naves. The central nave is covered with a wooden suspended cylindrical vault, the side naves are covered with a wooden flat ceiling. The apse is blocked by a conch. There are two sacristy rooms in the eastern part of the side aisles. There are choirs along the western wall.

The interior of the temple is decorated with seven wooden neo-Gothic carved altars made by local craftsmen, carved rosettes and ornamental and heraldic paintings. Wood is widely used in the interior decoration of the temple. The decoration is complemented by the painting of an ornamental frieze with a belt of medallions connected by garlands, elastic arches, and ceiling rosettes. Arched windows and niches are located around the perimeter of the building. The facade is decorated with false columns. 

At the end of the 19th century, a compact bell tower with two tiers was built in front of the church. There are several interesting tombstone monuments and sculptures on the territory of the church. One of them is the crypt of the Chakhovsky family, who owned Lunno after the Drutsky-Lyubetsky. On the other side of the church is the crypt of the Kamensky family.

St. Anna's Church is considered a local landmark and attracts enthusiastic glances not only from locals, but also from tourists visiting these places.