The building of the Mahilioŭ Women’s Eparchial School is an architectural monument of the end of the 19th century. Built in an eclectic style.

In 1872, after the visit to Mahilioŭ of the head of the Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire, the chief prosecutor of the Synod Dmitry Tolstoy, it was decided to establish a women's theological school in the city. For this purpose, a square in Zadubravienski Pasad was bought for 6 thousand rubles. The construction of the building cost 220 thousand rubles. Part of the money was allocated by the Synod, the rest was collected for over 20 years by the faithful and the clergy. Construction began in August 1889, and on September 3, 1892, the school accepted its first students.

The school was a three-story brick building on a high ground floor. The central part was joined by shorter side buildings, which formed a courtyard. In the center, along the axis of the main entrance, at first there was a church connected to the building by a covered passage. The windows of the first and second floors were rectangular, with flat platbands and keystones. The building had a corridor-type arrangement – in the central part there were classrooms, in the side wings – living and auxiliary rooms with separate entrances.

In the basement, there was a canteen, a cafeteria, a kitchen, a room for technical workers. On the ground floor, there were apartments of the head of the school, the supervisor, teachers, educators, an exemplary school, a handicraft room, an office with an archive and a wardrobe. On the second floor, there were classrooms, a recreation hall, a library, a teacher's room, and in the left wing, there was an infirmary. On the third floor there were 6 bedrooms, 6 apartments for teachers and a spare room for the infirmary.

After the establishment of the Soviet regime and until 1956, the building housed the Mahilioŭ Pedagogical School of Physical Education. Today the Mahilioŭ State Regional Lyceum No.1 is located in the building of the former women's eparchial school.

Publication date: 01.07.2021.

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