St. Anthony of Padua Church in Brest is a Lutheran church, which was built in 1938 and operated until 1945. The church was previously on Zyhmuntoŭskaja street, that is now Karl Marx street.

In 1930s in Brest there were about 200 Lutherans. In 1936 the parishioners of the local Evangelical-Augsburg community, headed by pastor Aĺfred Uha Fihašeŭski, by the consent of the city council, bought a 719 square metres land lot from a bourgeois Koziel for the construction of a church. The church was built in 1938 by an architect named Andrej Baranski.

During World War II and the German occupation Brest Lutheran church was used for its intended purpose – acts of worship. In 1945, however, in line with the anti-religious policy of the Soviet regime, the Lutheran parish in Brest ceased to exist. A cinema "Zmiena" was opened in the building of the church.

Publication date: 10.07.2019.

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