Church of Saint Anthony of Padua
Касцёл Божага Цела
53°24′39″N 25°34′30″E / 53.41087°N 25.57506°E / 53.41087; 25.57506
LocationDwarec
CountryBelarus
DenominationRoman Catholic church
Architecture
StyleNeo-Baroque
Completed1904
Administration
DioceseRoman Catholic Diocese of Grodno
The demolished wooden church in 1900

Church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Dwarec is a Roman Catholic church in Belarus, listed as a national Cultural heritage monument. In some sources it is called Corpus Christi church.[1]

First written mentions of Dvarec date back to the early 15th century. Since 1451 several generations of the Kęsgaila family owned the town. In 1516 they established a Catholic parish in the town. In the 17th century the church had an icon of St Mary that was considered a miraculous one.[2]

The old wooden church was demolished in the early 1900s and a Neo-Baroque stone church was built in its place by 1904. It was consecrated in the name of Saint Anthony of Padua.[2]

After the World War II the church was closed and used as stables. It was restored only almost 50 years later, in 1989, and reconsecrated in 1990.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Дварэц — парафія Божага Цела" [Dvarec — Corpus Christi Church] (in Belarusian). Catholic.by. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  2. 1 2 Kulagin 1986, p. 174.

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