Vishov. The 19th century Church of Peter and Paul

As you drive along the Mogilev-Minsk highway, you will see the ruins of a red brick building near the village of Vishov, not far from the road. These are the remains of the church of Peter and Paul. Before the revolution, there was an estate of the Savitsky lords in this place. There was a small palace, outbuildings and a park. The Savitskys financed the construction of a local stone church.

Some sources write information that the temple was built at the end of the 18th century, but it looks more like the building was built in the 19th century. For some time, Stepan Mikhailovich Bekarevich (1835-1913), an Orthodox priest, a Belarusian ethnographer and local historian, served as a priest here. He published his local history essays in the local newspaper Mogilev Gubernskie Vedomosti.

The church was closed during the Soviet era and destroyed in the 1960s. But the locals, despite the fact that the temple is in ruins, have created an altar inside the building, put icons, a cross, and hope that the time will come and the ancient building will be restored.

A few years ago, a new Orthodox church was built in Vishov at the expense of the SEC "Kolkhoz "Rodina", which is located in the center of the town.

Vishov has its own local history museum. Not far from the church, among the modern buildings, several ancient poplars from the old Savitsky Park have been preserved.