Gudogay (village)

The village is located 5 km south of the village of Gudogai and the railway station of the same name; 8 km southwest of the center of Ostrovets . The village stands on the border with the Oshmyany district , 10 km west of the village runs the border with Lithuania , Gudogai is located in the border zone of the Republic of Belarus. Highway P48 passes through the village.

Gudogai was first mentioned at the end of the 16th century. In the XVII century, the estate repeatedly passed from hand to hand ^[2] . The Catholic parish here was formed in 1777, in 1764 a wooden church of the Visitation was built ^[3] . The temple was built at the expense of the then owner of the estate of Jozef War and his wife Ludwika. Jozef and Ludwika Wars also invited monks from the Carmelite order to Gudogai .

Gudogaysky temple was widely known as a place of storage of the icon of the Gudogaysky Mother of God , revered miraculous. The early history of the icon is unknown, probably it was created in the XVI-beginning of the XVII century ^[4] , but the act on the founding of the Carmelite monastery of 1764 states that the icon “has been famous for miracles for a hundred years” ^[5] .

As a result of the third division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795), Gudogai became part of the Russian Empire , in the Oshmyany district of Vilna province ^[2] .

After the suppression of the uprising of 1830, a large number of Catholic monasteries in the territory of modern Belarus were closed. In 1832, the Carmelite monastery in Gudogai was closed, the temple was closed and sold to the Jewish community for demolition, and the icon was transferred to the temple in Oshmyany ^[5] . The church, however, was not destroyed, in 1856 it was bought out, and later restored about. Danat Semashko ^[5] . In 1874, the Libavo-Romny railway passed near the village, a station was laid 5 km from the settlement, around which the village quickly grew.

In 1906, a Catholic parish was restored in Gudogai ^[4] , a year later the icon ^{[5] was} returned to the Temple of Visitation. In the First World War in 1915, German troops occupied Gudogai, later the Bolsheviks and the Polish army occupied the place. According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), Gudogai became part of the interwar Polish Republic , where he belonged to the Oshmyany County of the Vilnius Voivodeship .

Since 1939, as part of the BSSR . During the Great Patriotic War, the village was under fascist occupation from June 1941 to July 1944.

On July 15, 2007, the ceremonial coronation of the Gudogai Icon of the Mother of God took place ^[6] .

• Visiting Catholic Church , a monument of wooden architecture, 1764.
  • Gudogai Icon of the Mother of God . Located in the center of the main altar of the Church of the Visitation.

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