Archbishop's Palace description and photos - Belarus: Mogilev (Topic)

Archbishop's Palace description and photos - Belarus: Mogilev. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Palace of Archbishop Stanislav Bogush-Sestrentsevich is an architectural monument of the late 18th century. The palace is a two-storey stone building, built in the classicism style.

After the partition of the Commonwealth in 1772, the lands on which about a million people of the Catholic faith lived were included in the Russian Empire. Empress Catherine II issued a decree establishing a Catholic bishopric in Russia with a residence in the city of Mogilev. Stanislav Bogush-Sestrentsevich, a prominent religious Catholic figure, educator and writer, becomes its head. The rights of Bogush-Sestrentsevich were confirmed by the nuncio Giovanni Andrea Archetti, authorized by Pope Pius VI.

A residence was built for the bishop in Mogilev. Bogush-Sestrentsevich also founded a printing house and a theological seminary in Mogilev. This printing house printed scientific, official, educational, reference books, as well as art books. The civil Russian script was first used here.

In 1857, a fire broke out in the former residence of the archbishop. As a result, the building was completely burnt out, leaving only a charred brick box. At an auction, these ruins were purchased for almost 20 thousand rubles by a wealthy merchant Shmerka Zuckerman. After reconstruction, the building was transferred to the local Jewish community for a synagogue.

In 1925, despite repeated petitions submitted by the Jews of Mogilev to the government, the synagogue building was taken away from the community.

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