Cathedral of St. Sofia, Polatsak 2012. Сафійскі сабор, Полацак 2012 год.
Polatsak (Polatsk) is the oldest city on the territory of today’s Belarus, and was the center of a powerful duchy in the second half of the 11th century — considered the first Belarusian state. The original cathedral of St. Sofia, built in the mid-11th century, was the scene of the murder of six Greek Catholic priests by Russian czar Peter I in 1705; Peter I ordered the cathedral to be blown up in 1710. The current cathedral was constructed 1738-1750 in the Vilnius Baroque style by the Greek Catholic church on the foundations of the original cathedral. Today the building is classified as a museum and, recipient of a splendid Czech organ in 1985, functions as a concert hall.
