Mogilev. Holy Cross Church.

While walking around Mogilev, you will definitely come to the Castle Hill and see the place where the history of the city began. The castle was built at the confluence of two rivers: the Dnieper and the Dubrovenka. The Castle Hill offers a beautiful panorama of the Dubrovenka River floodplain, where two Orthodox churches are visible behind a small river: Boriso-Gleb Cathedral and a small Holy Cross Church.

This small church is one of the oldest in the city of Mogilev. The first Holy Cross Church was built back in 1612 on Zadubrovenskoye Posad, so this part of the city was called during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

After the visit of the Uniate bishop Josaphat Kuntsevich to Mogilev in 1818, all the Orthodox churches of the city were closed or transferred to the Uniates. The church was restored only in 1634. In the 19th century, an old residential building of the 17th century was rebuilt as the Holy Cross Church.

The building is made of stone, originally square in plan. It was the dwelling house of a merchant, or a craftsman. On the side of the street there were frescoes of the 17th century depicting flowers. The murals were whitewashed in the 20th century. At first, the building had features of the Baroque architectural style, and was rebuilt in the 19th century in the pseudo-Russian style. Now there is a font at the Boriso–Gleb Orthodox Church.