Church of St. Anthony of Padua ( Belorussian. Castel Svyatog Anthony of Padua ) is a Catholic church in the town of Pastavy , Belarus . Belongs to the Postavy dean of the Vitebsk diocese . An architectural monument in the neo - Gothic style, built in 1898-1904. The temple is included in the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus , consecrated in the name of St. Anthony of Padua . Located at: st. Embankment, 6.
| Catholic temple | |
| Church of St. Anthony | |
|---|---|
| Castcel Svyatog Antonіya | |
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| A country |  Belarus |
| City | Pastavy |
| Denomination | Catholicism |
| Diocese | Vitebsk diocese |
| Architectural style | Neo-gothic |
| Project Author | A. Goibel |
| Building | 1898 - 1904 |
| condition | acts |
 | Object of the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus Code: 213G000573 |
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History
The Catholic parish in Pastavy was formed in 1522 , when a wooden church of the Mother of God was built here. During the Russo-Polish war of 1654-1657, the temple was completely destroyed. In 1760 a new Catholic church was built, it has not survived to our time, in its place now stands the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas .
In 1640, the royal secretary, Stanislav Begansky, initiated the founding of the Franciscan monastery in Pastavy, and the monastery and temple were built in the steep bend of the Mjadelka River . After the uprising of 1830, the monastery was closed, the remains of the monastery church were dismantled.
In 1886 , priest Stanislav Vysotsky was rector of the Postavy parish of the Disney dean’s [1] .
On the site of the former monastery church, designed by architect Arthur Goibel in 1898-1904 [2] (according to other sources in 1880-1887 [3] ), a modern neo-Gothic red brick building was erected. Construction was carried out on the foundation of the old church of the monastery, but the new church is oriented north-south, while the old one had a traditional east-west orientation. The new church received the name of St. Anthony of Padua.
In 1915 , Joseph Krauyalis was rector of the Postavy Church of the Nadvilei Dean’s [4] .
During the First World War, the church was badly damaged, arches, roofing, windows, doors received significant damage; destroyed the metal fence around the temple, the organ , the main altar and pulpit . After the war, Pastavy became part of Poland , the temple was restored. In 1939, Pastavy became part of the USSR , the last rector Boleslav Matseevsky, was arrested and died in Stalin's camps. The temple was closed, after the Second World War , a warehouse was made in the temple, then workshops of an industrial enterprise were located there.
In 1988, the church of Anthony of Padua was returned to the Catholic parish. After a long restoration, the temple was opened for worship. Priests from the Congregation of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus feed the parish.
Architecture
The church is a three-nave basilica with a five-sided apse , transverse transept and two side sacristy . The temple ship and the transept sleeves are covered with a high gable roof. Above the crossroads of the central nave and transept is a small spire. The main architectural dominant of the church is a tetrahedral bell tower with a faceted spire over the central part of the main facade.
Literature
- Architects of Belarus: Entsyklapedychny davennik. - Mn .: BelEN, 1993 .-- 620 p. ISBN 5-85700-078-5
- A. M. Kulagin. Catalan churches of Belarus. - Minsk: 2008. ISBN 978-985-11-0395-5
Notes
- ↑ Commemorative book of the Vilnius province for 1886. - Vilna: provincial printing house, 1885. - P.88.
- ↑ radzima.org
- ↑ About the temple on the site of the Catholic Church in Belarus
- ↑ Commemorative book of the Vilnius province for 1915. - Vilna: provincial printing house, 1915. - P.169.