A village hidden in the wilderness in the very north of Belarus, in which there is an amazingly beautiful church.
The Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Neo-Gothic style was founded here by Ignatius Lopatinsky in 1857 in memory of his beloved and early deceased wife Maria.
In 1865, it was confiscated "for splendor", and during the Soviet period it was converted into a four-story storage room for mineral fertilizers. A unique architectural solution of the building is a through-toothed arcade and numerous pinnacles at the end.
Having traveled almost the entire republic, I can say with confidence that the church is rightfully considered one of the most expressive representatives of the Neo-Gothic of modern Belarus.
The inscription on the stone
They asked heaven for forgiveness for those who sacrificed themselves without regret for the sake of their native land and grew up with the sprouts of Memory.
Nice dining room!
My personal top dishes are machanka and draniki. But meat dishes in the form of various chops are also eaten with gusto.
There is only one drawback — sometimes meat dishes (more often chicken fillet, sometimes draniki, and recently also pretzel with marzipan) have a taste of bleach.
Oh, and sometimes the trays are wet and greasy.
The beautiful temple built in the Neo-Gothic style is uncharacteristic for the Orthodox Church. It has both a tragic and dramatic history of construction - the story of the love of the landowner Ignatius Lopatinsky for his wife Maria. The church houses an icon of Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom with relics - which are revered as patrons of family and marriage. Unfortunately, it is not easy to visit the temple. The priest serves alone in 4 churches. Come - it's worth a lot.