Luzhki. The Church of St. Michael the Archangel.
Church
Belarus, Vitebsk region, Sharkovshchinsky district, agro-town of Luzhki, 17 September str., 53
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Luzhki is a settlement in the Sharkovshchina district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus. The main attraction here is the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, which was built from 1744 to 1756. It is an architectural monument of the so-called "Vilno" Baroque.
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Architectural monument
Location
Latitude: 55.3512756
Longitude: 27.87796437
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1Ольга Ерёменко
17.02.2025
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel is an architectural monument of the "Vilno" Baroque, an important architectural monument of the 18th century.
Initially, the church of St. Michael the Archangel was part of the local monastery, founded in 1741. After the uprising of 1830, the monastery, like many Catholic monasteries in the territory of present-day Belarus, was closed.
In 1843, the church was transferred to the Orthodox Church, was rebuilt and re-equipped. After the First World War, when Luzhki was part of Poland, the church was returned to Catholics.
In 1949, the Soviet government closed the church, the building was used to store mineral fertilizers. In the late 1980s, the church was returned to the Catholics and restored.
The church in Luzhki vividly represents the architecture of the "Vilno" Baroque with an unusual concave facade and four-tiered towers. The temple is a single-nave building, completed with a cylindrical vault with decking. At the end of the nave there is a large semicircular apse, which is lower than the main volume of the temple and is covered with a separate tent roof. On both sides of the apse there are two low symmetrical sacristies covered with single-pitched roofs. The two towers of the main facade, which have four tiers, are not aligned in the same plane with the facade, but are located at an angle.
The vaults of the temple's interior are richly decorated with ornaments and paintings. The main altar was decorated with gilded wooden statues of the apostles in Rococo style, of which only one remains, now kept in the Polotsk Museum. There are choirs above the entrance, enclosed by a wavy parapet.
Today, the church is in good condition, completely restored and is an important architectural monument of the 18th century, an interesting landmark of Belarus.
The village also houses the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, built in 1794, and the surrounding area is enclosed by a stone fence from the late 19th century.
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