Church of the Transfiguration in Čačersk is a unique for Belarus temple-rotunda.

Church of the Transfiguration together with other two orthodox and catholic churches was built in 1783 on the order of a governor-general count Charnyshou. Today only this temple has remained although it had been strongly damaged. At the beginning of 2000th the church was restored. The temple is build up in the form of a circle – rotunda, the diameter of which comes to fifteen meters. A height from floor to a dome is also fifteen meters. The building is accomplished in classicism style. The main traits of it are monumentality and the accuracy of construction. In Church of the Transfiguration there remained the old icons of the work of Italic masters and also the sacred image of a Belarusian artist Jan Sankovich of 1678.

Publication date: 07.08.2017.

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