Perelom. The Capuchin Church.
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Belarus, Grodno region, Grodno region, Perelom.
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21.02.2025
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In the village of Perelom, Grodno region, a small wooden Capuchin church was recently built, which was consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Mother of God and St. George. The first small Catholic church was built here in the 18th century. It was closed in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the chapel was rebuilt, but it burned down during the First World War. In 1921, a large two-tower church was built. In the 1930s, the Capuchin monks built a three-storey monastery.
All the buildings survived the war, but in peacetime in the 1950s and 1970s the shrine was demolished.
In 1995, a new church was built near the foundation of the old church. Capuchin monks come to the chapel to serve, wearing a brown Habit with a hood, which is tied with a white rope with three knots. Each of the knots signifies the monastic vows that the monks promised upon joining the order: obedience, chastity and poverty.
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Location
Latitude: 53.89362688
Longitude: 23.78535968
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1Алег Дзьячкоу
21.02.2025
Perelom. The Capuchin Church.
To the north of the city of Grodno there is a place called Perelom on the banks of the Neman River. A few years ago, a modern Catholic church was built here near the foundations of an ancient temple. Today, the place is very small and only a few of the indigenous people are left here, and the rest are visiting summer residents.
For the first time, Perelom was mentioned in written sources since the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. A wooden castle was erected here, which protected the state from the aggression of the Teutonic Order. Since the 16th century, it has been a part of the Trok voivodeship of the Grodno district. Since 1569, the place has been included in the property of the king.
After the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, it became part of the Russian Empire in the Grodno province.
After the Peace of Riga in 1921, it became part of the Polish state until 1939, when Soviet power came.
In 1742, Alexander Potey, who held the post of castellan in Troki, built a Catholic chapel, which was consecrated in honor of the birth of the Mother of God and St. George. The temple belonged to a parish in the town of Gozha. There was a small organ for five voices in the chapel. In the 19th century, the chapel was closed after the anti-Russian uprising. In 1911, the shrine was rebuilt, but the temple burned down during the First World War.
In 1921, a large two-towered church was built on the site of the chapel, which was consecrated, as well as the chapel in honor of the birth of the Mother of God and St. George. The temple was built by the Mikhail Garetskevich foundation. In the 1930s, Capuchin monks came to the church, who rebuilt a three-story wooden monastery building nearby.
After the war, during Soviet times, the pleban and monastery buildings were dismantled first. And in the 1970s, the church building was demolished.
In 1995, a wooden chapel of the Nativity of the Mother of God and St. George was erected next to the foundations of the old church. All that remains of the old church is the stone porch and the foundations of the building.
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