Carmelite Monastery Complex
Carmelite Monastery Complex in Hlybokaje is a monument of the early baroque architecture. It included the building of a former church, monastery and gates. It was built in 1639–1654 by the Mscislaŭ warlord Iosif Korsak. In 1735 it was rebuilt in the style of Vilnius Baroque.
Carmelite Monastery Complex in Hlybokaje is a monument of the early baroque architecture. It included the building of a former church, monastery and gates. It was built in 1639–1654 by the Mscislaŭ warlord Iosif Korsak. In 1735 it was rebuilt in the style of Vilnius Baroque.
Before the main facade of the temple there is a two-level gate, built simultaneously with the rebuilding of the temple in 1735. In its composition it is an elongated basilica with a rectangular apse. Light, finely drawn towers which elevate the building in the heavens are put to the vast array of the main volume with thick walls.
The stone three-storey monastery, which had replaced the wooden one in 1735, abutted the church from the north-west side. Its eastern wing has been preserved, the other two, dilapidated, were dismantled in 1892.
The reason for the closure of the monastery was the uprising in 1863 and the active participation of the Carmelites, who passed the insurgents products, provided them with medicines, hid them in a catacomb of the monastery, in it. After the defeat of the uprising monastery cells and its catacombs turned into chambers for torture and detention of participants of the uprising.
During the reconstruction of the catholic church in the orthodox church in 1875, murals, which had covered the walls and ceiling of the temple, were lost. At the same time an iconostasis was set in it. A copy of the miraculous image of the Mother of God "It is Truly Meet", brought here in 1911 from Korea, the capital of the Holy Mountain Athos, is a special value of the temple.
Currently, the church is reconsecrated and acts as the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God.
Publication date: 16.01.2019.
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