Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sarya description and photos - Belarus: Vitebsk region (Topic)

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sarya description and photos - Belarus: Vitebsk region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sarya - this is the name of the Saryan church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The majestic neo-Gothic church was built by the architect Gustav Schacht in 1857.

Tourists who come to see the sights are surprised by the fabulously beautiful red church looking into the sky - a real Gothic in the middle of the most ordinary Belarusian village. It is called the Red Crystal or the Stone Organ, because in a strong wind, a lonely carved tall building emits a mournful howl.

The Red Church is a monument to touching, devoted and sad love. It was built by the inconsolable widower Ignatius Lopatinsky, a scion of a wealthy gentry family, in memory of the untimely deceased (in childbirth) young beloved wife Maria.

In long-suffering Belarus, inter-confessional wars never died down. In those days, the power belonged to the Orthodox. For the construction of a Catholic church, one could go straight to Siberia. Ignatius Lopatinsky was lucky - the tsarist officials considered him abnormal, they decided that he had lost his mind from grief. Would it ever occur to anyone to build a temple right in the cemetery? The widower explained his intention by the desire to erect a monument to his beloved wife.

The inconsolable Pan Lopatinsky managed not only to complete and consecrate the temple, but also to build an amazingly beautiful park around the cemetery. However, the envious people reported to the authorities and the beautiful church was forcibly converted to Orthodoxy under the name of the Resurrection Church.

During the Soviet Union, the temple was used to store fertilizers. and then they were going to make a two-story entertainment facility in it. Oddly enough, the war spared a beautiful Gothic monument, but only one brama remained of the former rich Lopatinsky estate.

In our time, on the initiative of the local director of the state farm Vladimir Skrobov, a partial restoration of the church was carried out. In 1989, the temple was transferred to the Orthodox Church and consecrated as the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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