Polish-era Functionalist and Zakopane style architecture in Harodnja (Grodno) 2016, part I/X: Vorstadt. We turn again to Belarus’ patrimony of Polish-era functionalist and Zakopane-style architecture, previously featured in photos of Hlybokaje (September 18-19, 2016), Braslau (September 17, 2016 and September 29, 2015), and Pinsk (April 24, 2016). It was a pleasure to be able to… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 20, 2016
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Photos of the Day for November 15, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (VIII/X): Roman Catholic church and former synagogue (now a warehouse). Ашмяны 2015 г. (VIII/X): касьцёл і былаф сінагога (зараз склад). Churches of Belarus (part CLVIX): Roman Catholic church of the Archangel Michael (1900-1910). This church is an elegant copy of the 18th-century Vilnius baroque style. Synagogue (1912? Closed in… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 15, 2016
Photos of the Day for November 9, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part II/X): Turn-of-the-20th-century and Pre-World War II architecture along Savjetskaja Street. Ашмяны 2015 г. (частка II/X): Дойлідства канца 19-га/пачатку 20-га стст. і за польскім часам, вул. Савецкая. Former hospital (built at the begnning of the 20th century), now the district court house. Былы шпіталь пачатку 20-га ст., зараз раённы суд. … Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 9, 2016
Photos of the Day for November 8, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part I/X). Now a city of about 15,000 inhabitants, the district center Ashmjany lies closer to Lithuania’s capital Vilnius than to any regional center in Belarus. The first known written mention of Ashmjany dates to 1341; burned to the ground four times by Muscovite invaders in the 16th and mid-17th centuries, the city… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 8, 2016
Photos of the Day for October 4, 2016
Polesian roads: from the Sporava Marsh Preserve to Pinsk 2016, part II/V: Bjezdzjezh. The Polesian village of Bjezdzjezh in Drahichyn District of western Belarus is known for its Easter-day fair on the village square, where the 1784 wooden Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity stands. Bjezdzjezh is also well-known for its tradition of hand-embroidered aprons… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 4, 2016
Photos of the Day for September 13, 2016
Braslau architectural patrimony 2016 (I/V). Braslau should be proud of its neglected but nevertheless outstanding example of a Polish-era “civil-servants’ quarter” (in Belarusian: калонія ўраднікаў; in Polish: kolonia urzędników), designed in the mid-1920s in the emerging functionalist style by renowned Polish architect Juliusz Kłos. The photos of the day for September 29, 2015 surveyed this… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 13, 2016
Photo of the Day for April 9, 2014
From a mid-January photo survey of the patrimony of north-eastern Valozhyn District. З вандроўкі па спадчыне паўночна-усходняй Валожыншчыны. View toward the Orthodox church of the Ascension, Jarshevichy, January 2014. Выгляд на царкву Ўшэсьця Гасподняга, Яршэвічы, студзень 2014 г.