Month: January 2015

Photos of the Day for January 11, 2015

Churches of Belarus.  It is highly unusual for a Belarusian town of the size of Ivjanjets (4320 inhabitants in 2009) to have two functioning Roman Catholic churches, let alone of such high architectural merit. Касьцёлы Беларусі. Churches of Belarus (part LXXX):  Roman Catholic church of St. Andrew, Ivjanjets 2014 (completed 1907).  Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка LXXX): … Continue reading Photos of the Day for January 11, 2015

Photo of the Day for January 10, 2015

Photo excursion to the Ivjanjets area, 40 miles west-southwest of Mjensk.  Фотавандроўка на Івянеччыну. Zhabrouski Family Chapel (with grave of leading Belarusian playwright and national revivalist Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkjevich), Tupal’shchyna 2014. Капліца-пахавальня Жаброўскіх з магілай Вінцэнта Дуніна-Марцінкевіча, Тупальшчына 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for January 9, 2015

Photo excursion to the Ivjanjets area, 40 miles west-southwest of Mjensk:  oak tree near Kijavjets 2014. Фотавандроўка па Івянеччыне:  дуб пад в. Кіявец 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for January 8, 2015

Photo expedition to Ivjanjets, 40 miles west-southwest of Mjensk:  former estate barn, Kijavjets 2014. Note the buttresses. Фотавандроўка на Івянец:  стары сядзібны сарай, Кіявец 2014 г.

Orthodox Christmas / Раство

Christ is born!  Glorify Him!  З Раством Хрыстовым!  З Різдвом Христовим! To celebrate Orthodox Christmas. Azdamichy 2014.  Аздамічы 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for January 6, 2015

Kuts’tsja (Orthodox Christmas Eve):  Turau 2007.  Куцьця:  Тураў 2007 г. Kuts’tsja is a Roman Catholic and Orthodox ceremony and meal with pre-Christian roots, traditionally celebrated Christmas Eve in Belarus and Ukraine — and paralleled in the Christmas-Eve vigils in Lithuania and Poland.  The ceremony includes placing straw under the tablecloth to commemorate Christ’s birth in… Continue reading Photo of the Day for January 6, 2015

Photo of the Day for January 4, 2015

Churches of Belarus (part LXXIX):  Orthodox church of the Raising of the True Cross, Haradzishcha (Baranavichy District) 2014. Photo taken during a survey of the architectural and historical patrimony of Baranavichy District with Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. Цэрквы Беларусі (частка LXXIX):  царква Ўзвышэньня Сьвятога… Continue reading Photo of the Day for January 4, 2015