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Zaslavl. Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Church

Belarus, Minsk region, Zaslavl, Rynochnaya street, 1

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The city of Zaslavl is one of the oldest cities in Belarus, it is more than a thousand years old. In the historical center of Zaslavl there is a Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1774 with funds from the then owner of the city, Antony Pshezdetsky.

In the second half of the 19th century, the church was closed, and later rebuilt and reconsecrated as an Orthodox church. During the Great Patriotic War, the church was badly damaged. In 1998, the church was returned to the Catholics. The church is active, restoration work is still ongoing.

It is a monument of late Baroque architecture. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zaslavl is included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus

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Architectural monument

Architectural monument

Historical

Historical

On restoration

On restoration

Location

Latitude: 54.00315241
Longitude: 27.2915972

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Zaslavl. Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The first wooden church was built in Zaslavl back in 1627 by the then owners of the city, the Glebovichs. In 1753, Zaslavl and its environs were acquired by Antoni Pshezdetsky, Count of Zaslavsky, a statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Over the course of 150 years, the old wooden church fell into disrepair, and by 1774, a new majestic stone church was erected in its place on the initiative and at the expense of the new owner of Zaslavl. There is an unconfirmed version that the author of the project was the Italian architect Giovanni Battista. The church was built in the late Baroque style. It is single-nave, has a semicircular apse and two sacristies. The thickness of the temple walls reaches 2 meters. In the lower part, under the altar, there was a burial vault of the Pshezdetsky family.

After the "Polish" uprising of 1863, the church was closed. Several years later, after reconstruction in 1868, the temple was consecrated as an Orthodox church. The gable roof was removed and replaced with a light drum. Local Catholics asked to preserve the ancient image of the Virgin Mary, and the name of the temple in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was also preserved.

The church within the walls of the former Catholic church existed before the war, in 1941 the building was damaged, services ceased. According to locals, a shell fell right in the middle, broke through the roof and for some reason did not explode there. But the roof was destroyed, and the walls survived almost to the very top. Until 1998, the building was empty, until it was handed over to the Catholics again. The restoration of the half-destroyed building was delayed, but in 2013 the church was consecrated by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz.

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