Photos of the Day for August 9, 2017

Cemetery in Harodniki (Ashmjany District) 2017.

Every cemetery, even in a small village, is a lesson in local history and the history of the nation.

Могілкі ў Гародніках (Ашмянскі раён) 2017 г.

 

 

Churches of Belarus (part CCX):  cemetery chapel of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (1864).

Касьцёлы Беларусі (CCX):  капліца Найсьвяцейшай Панны Марыі з Гары Кармэль (1864 г.).

 

 

 

 

 

Graves of Polish Home Army soldiers killed in June 1944.

Надмагільлі салдатаў А.К., упалых у чэрвені 1944 г.

 

 

 

 

 

Grave of Andrzej (Jędrzej) Śniadecki (noted physician and scientist, 1768-1838).

Надмагільле Андрэя Сьнядэцкага (1768-1838).

 

 

 

 

Name written in a mix of Latin and Cyrillic letters.

Надмагільле напісанае сумесю лацінскага й кірыліцкага алфавітаў.

 

 

 

 

Lilies-of-the-valley, a traditional cemetery flower in Belarus.  The cross in the first photo resembles the crosses which the Polish authorities of the interwar Second Polish Republic erected in restoring and tending German World War I cemeteries. 

Ландышы.

 

 

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