Assumption Church (Kobrin)

The first wooden church in Kobrin was built in 1513 with the money of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund . Its construction was financed by Anna Semenovna , Princess Kobrin. Since then, the church has repeatedly burned and rebuilt.

In May 1840, the project for the construction of a new stone church, approved in 1839 by the architect Noskov, was approved. On the approved project are the signatures of architects Charlemagne, Visconti, F. Rusco, Lieutenant General Destren. The construction of the church was begun in the first half of 1841 and was carried on until 1843. The temple was built on donations from parishioners. On August 15, 1845, the constructed church was consecrated by the local priest Anthony Kiselevsky. In 1851, the church was consecrated by Bishop of Vilnius Vaclav Zilinsky in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary .

The stone church was 35 × 19 m in size. The main facade was decorated with two towers. The temple is built in the style of classicism. It is a three-nave , rectangular, with a gable roof. Side facades with rectangular windows and pilasters in the piers.

There were three altars in the temple, all carved, silver or gilded, with icons of Jesus Christ , Mother of God of Ostrobramskoy and St. Anthony, the last two - Parisian letters. The choir housed the organ for 12 votes. The territory of the church was surrounded on three sides by ramparts, moats, and from the street it was separated by a brick fence with two brahms . There were four sculptures on the graveyard: St. St. John Helena, in a stone chapel - St. Anne, and at the altar - a cross with the figure of the Savior.

The ashes of Alexander Miscavige , younger brother [Adam Miscavige | Adam Miscavige]], and his family rest in a cemetery near the church. On the grave is a monument in the form of a grieving angel. Here at the cemetery is a colonnary. In 1864, the church was painted by Napoleon Horde .

In 1920, Polish soldiers and officers who died in the battle of Bereza on September 15-17 were buried in a cemetery near the church. During the years of World War II, the church was practically not damaged and was open to parishioners.

A few years after the end of the war, the Soviet Chekists found in the church a weapons and ammunition depot of the underground organization Union of Defenders of Freedom (Zvenzek Protecting Volnozi), whose members did not recognize the Polish borders that had developed after the war.

In 1962, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities and transferred to a furniture warehouse. He was again returned to believers in 1990. The church was restored at the expense of parishioners by the Polish construction organization "Energopol", which took part in the construction of the Kobrin-Brest-Warsaw gas pipeline.

On September 13, 2008, on the churchyard of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the remains of about 60 soldiers and officers of the Polish army who died in September 1939 were reburied. 13 of them died during the defense of Kobrin in the initial period of World War II . The remains of the remaining soldiers and officers of the Polish army were found near the village of Podzemzhenie in the Kobrin district. According to local residents, these soldiers were shot by communist activists when the territory of the district was occupied by the Red Army .

• Ablamsky V.Ya., Charnyaski I.M., Barysyuk Yu.A. Dzyarzhaўny list of cultural-kashtoўnastsey Republic Belarus (Belarusian) . - Minsk: BelTA, 2009. - ISBN 978-985-6828-35-8 .

• About the temple on the tourist site of the city of Kobrin
• Cultural and historical heritage of Kobrin on the site Intellectual Kobrin district