Photos of the Day for March 17, 2016

Photo expedition to Ashmjany and Smarhon’ Districts (XV/XVI):  Baruny 2016.

Фотавандроўка па Ашмянскім і Смаргоньскім раёнах (XV/XVI):  Баруны 2016 г.

 

Churches of Belarus (part CXLI):  Roman Catholic (originally Greek Catholic) church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (1747-56).

Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка CXLI):  касьцёл (былая базыльянская царква) Сьвятых апосталаў Пятра й Паўла (1747-56).

 

Former Basilian monastery attached to the church.  The Basilians in the Polish Commonwealth were a Greek-Catholic order which flourished after the Union of Brest (1595-96), when the eastern Orthodox church in the Belarusian and Ukrainian lands broke with the Eastern Orthodox church and entered into communion with Rome.

Корпус былога базыльянскага манастыра.

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