Photos of the Day for December 2, 2015

Excursion to Ashmjany and Valozhyn Districts.  Вандроўка па Ашмянскім і Валожынскім раёнах.

Vishnjeva 2015.  Вішнева 2015 г.

 

Churches of Belarus (part CXXI):  Roman Catholic church of the Visitation (1637-41; restored 1771; pseudo-baroque facade added in 1906). 

Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка СХХІ):  касьцёл Адведзінаў Найсьвяцейшай Панны Марыі (1637-1641; адноўлены 1771; псеўдабарочная фасада прыбудавана 1906).

 

 

 

 

Churches of Belarus (part CXXII):  Orthodox church of Cosmas and Damian (1865).  The church has a design typical of Orthodox churches which the Russian imperial system/Moscow Patriarchate imposed on the Belarusian landscape after the defeat of the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian uprising of 1863.  Regrettably, as the photos from 2001 and 2015 show, this church has fallen victim to the same substitution of vulgar Russian-style gold domes for the original vernacular domes that plagues the Orthodox patrimony throughout Belarus.

Цэрквы Беларусі (частка СХХІІ):  царква Сьвятых Космы й Даміяна (1865).

 

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