Mozyr. Church of Holy Michael the Archangel.

In the 18th century, the town of Mozyr was a major religious center in the south of Belarus, and several Catholic religious institutions operated here. A church and a monastery were built on the right bank of the Pripyat River in the so-called "Angel Valley" on Gogol Street. The first church was still made of wood and was founded in 1610. Tycoon Casimir Sapega donated 30,000 zlotys to the monastery. The church of Michael the Archangel and the monastery belonged to the Cistercians. It was founded in 1711, and the brick building was built already in 1744 on the foundation of the Kyiv undersheriff Zhygimont Shukshta and the wife of the Mazyr land clerk Sofia Komarovska on the initiative of priest Benedikt Rozhansky. There was a school attached to the church, where 28 girls studied in 1809. At the end of the 19th century, the buildings were handed over to the Orthodox. During the Soviet era, the buildings were used as a music school. Now the church has been returned to the Catholic faithful. The church was built as a one-nave temple covered by cross vaults with walls one and a half meters thick. The interior of the building in the 19th century was painted with frescoes based on the history of the Cistercian order. The murals have not survived.