Photo survey of Polesia in western Homjel’ Region 2015: Ljel’chytsy District (Bujnavichy, Buda-Safijeuka), Kalinkavichy District (Juravichy, Hrada), and the city of Mazyr.
Фотавандроўка па спадчыне Палесься на заходняй Гомельшчыне 2015 г.: Лельчыцкі раён (Буйнавічы, Буда-Сафіеўка), Калінкавіцкі раён (Юравічы, Града) і Мазыр.
Former Jesuit monastery and collegium (1717-46), now Eastern Orthodox monastery of the Birth of the Most Holy Mother of God.
The Jesuit monastery and collegium was renowned for its miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Juravichy. In 1820 the Russian imperial authorities took the monastery away from the Jesuits and gave it to the Bernardine order. In turn the Bernardines and other Catholic orders came under Russian imperial pressure after the anti-Russian Uprising of 1831, and the Bernardines transferred the monastery for use by the local Roman Catholic parish. In 1865 the Russian imperial authorities confiscated the monastery and gave it to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Eastern Orthodox church, which added garish Orthodox architectural elements to the baroque church (later removed). The monastery was closed in 1920, at the beginning of the Bolshevik occupation of the eastern Belarusian lands. Later the Soviet authorities used the church as a children’s (orphans’ ?) home. In World War II occupying German forces used the monastery as a miltary headquarters. After the Soviets drove out the Germans and reoccupied Belarus, the authorities again used the monastery as a children’s home. As happened with many other church buildings in the Soviet empire under Khrushchev’s heightened atheism campaign, so in Juravichy the local authorities saw the monastery as a source of bricks for construction and partially dismantled the church and walls. In 1993 the Orthodox church again took possession and opened a women’s, and subsequently a men’s, monastery. The one positive note in the monastery buildings’ anabasis during the past 155 years of Russian-imperial, Bolshevik, Soviet and neo-Soviet depredations has been the steady, careful restoration of the complex in recent years.
Былы езуіцкі кляштар і калегіум (1717-46 гг.), зараз праваслаўны манастыр Нараджэньня Прасьвятой Багародзіцы. Выдатныя гісторыя і фотаздымкі на https://azarkinm.livejournal.com/133076.html.
