Photos of the Day for April 4, 2014

Patrimony of Vjaljejka District.  Спадчына Вялейскага раёну.

Photos from a mid-January photographic survey of cultural and architectural monuments in eastern Vjaljejka District.  Фотаздымкі з вандроўкі па архітэктурнай і культурнай спадчыны ўзходняга Вялейскага раёну.

Churches of Belarus (part LXI):  Orthodox church of the Protection of the Holy Mother of God, Vjazyn’ 2014.  The current church, probably dating from the end of the 19th century, stands on the site of a Roman Catholic church which was converted into an Orthodox church during the unremitting Russification campaign after the defeat of the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian uprising of 1863.

Цэрквы Беларусі (частка LXI):  царква Покрыва Прасьвятой Багародзіцы , Вязынь 2014 год.

Ikon of the Holy Trinity.  Many of the ikons in this church are Greek-Catholic, not Orthodox, in style.  Абраз Сьвятой Тройцы.

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