Photos of the Day for July 26, 2015

Photo survey of the architectural patrimony of Mahiljou Region (Karatnitsa, Vyshou (Njezhkau), Mahiljou, Bykhau) with Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments (БДТАПГК), part VI/X.

Фотавандроўка па помніках Магілёўшчыны (Каратніца, Вышоў (Нежкаў), Магілёў, Быхаў) са старшынёй Беларускага дабраахвотнага таварыства аховы помнікаў гісторыі й культуры (БДТАПГК) Антонам Астаповічам, частка VI/X.

Churches of Belarus (part XCIX):  Roman Catholic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stanislas (1752), Mahiljou 2015.  Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка XCIX):  касьцёл Унебаўзяцьця Найсьвяцейшай Панны Марыі й Сьв. Станіслава (1752), Магілёў 2015 г.

Aside from desecrating churches, it was a widespread practice under the Soviet regime to ruin their placement by erecting buildings which blocked a normal perspective toward the facade (e.g., Kreva, Kljetsk, the Roman Catholic cathedral in Mjensk).  The stately facade of the church of the Assumption is similarly hemmed in by faceless Soviet blocks.

Nave frescoes, restored in the late 1990s.

 

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