Church of Saint Anthony of Padua
Neo-Gothic church by the side of the Miadzielka River.
The brick church of Saint Anthony of Padua was built by an architect Artur Hojbieĺ in nineteen four in the territory of a former Franciscan monastery instituted in sixteen seventeen, sponsored by Stanislaŭ and Hanna Siankievičs'-Biahanskis’. In the seventeenth century a family of Siankievičs'-Biahanskis' was an owner of the town. The monastery with the church was built with their facilities.
After the uprising of eighteen thirty the monastery was closed and remains of the church were taken to pieces. Only in eighteen ninety-eight–nineteen four (according to other information in eighteen eighty–eighteen eighty-seven) a new temple named in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua was laid up on its foundations upon the project of the architect Artur Hojbieĺ. The new church was orientated in the line of north-south, just as the old one had a traditional orientation east-west. It was built in a Neo-Gothic style of red brick. Lancet windows and oriels, stepping abutments – all this are elements of neo-Gothic. A tower-steeple is in the centre of crucial upon plan temple.
During the First World War the church was badly hurt: an organ, a main altar, an ambo were gutted. Subsequent to the results of the Peace of Riga ща 1921, Pastavy find oneself consisting of Poland and the temple in twenties of the twentieth century was renewed. In nineteen thirty-nine Pastavy were joined to BSSR. As a result, the church was closed and the last senior priest Baliaslaŭ Maciajeŭski was arrested and died in Stalin's camps. After the Second World War the building of the church was being used as a warehouse, later shops of an enterprise were there.
In nineteen eighty-eight the building of the church of Saint Anthony of Padua was one of the first churches in Belarus which were given back to faithful. After a long-drawn restoration the temple was opened for divine services. Now the church is fully renewed.
Publication date: 13.06.2017.
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