Church of St. John the Baptist ( Belorussian. Castel Svyatogo Jan Hrysstіtsela ) - a Catholic church in the village of Mstibovo , Grodno region , Belarus . Belongs to the Volkovysk dean of the Grodno diocese . Monument of architecture in the neo - Gothic style [1] . The temple is included in the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus .
| Catholic temple | |
| Church of St. John the Baptist | |
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| Castcel Svyatog Jan Hrysstіtsela | |
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| A country |  Belarus |
| Village | Mstibovo |
| Denomination | Catholicism |
| Diocese | Grodno diocese |
| Architectural style | neo-gothic |
| Construction | 1910 - 1919 |
| condition | acts |
 | Object of the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus Code: 412G000110 |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Architecture
- 3 Literature
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
History
In 1512, a Catholic parish was established in Mstibovo [2] . The constructed wooden church burned down several times, then rebuilt again. In 1910, it was dismantled for the construction of a new stone church, and a wooden building of plebania was built from building materials [3] .
In 1910-1919, on the site of the old one, a new stone neo-Gothic Catholic church of St. John the Baptist [1] . In 1932, he was solemnly consecrated [2] .
In 1943, fascist invaders shot the rector of the church, Mark Burak, along with 50 parishioners [3] .
Architecture
The church is a two-tower neo-Gothic temple with a transept , a three-sided apse and two vestries . The main western facade consists of three parts: the central part, completed by a triangular shield, and two side two-tier towers, completed by curly tents. Above the main entrance there is a three-arch window. The side facades are divided by two-tier beam openings, on the first tier between the windows there are step buttresses . The corners of the towers, transept and apse are flanked by stepped buttresses [1] .
In the interior stands out a wooden two-tier carved altar of St. John of the 19th century, located in the north wing of the transept [1] . Also in the temple are stored several valuable icons of the 18th-19th centuries.
The territory of the temple is surrounded by a stone fence, in which a two-story brama-bell tower, built in 1900, is built in [4] .
Literature
- A. M. Kulagin. Catalan churches of Belarus. - Minsk: 2008. ISBN 978-985-11-0395-5
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Article // Architecture of Belarus. Entsyklapedychny davennik. - Mn. : “Belarussian Encyclapedian name Petrusya Brokki”, 1993. - 620 p. - ISBN 5-85700-078-5 .
- ↑ 1 2 Site of the Catholic Church in Belarus
- ↑ 1 2 Village of Mstibovo (Grodno region)
- ↑ Website "Globe of Belarus"