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Orthodox Churches in Lithuania (3)

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This is a distinctive monument of Orthodox architecture. In the late 16th century, a wooden church was built in this place, also establishing a school next to it. A Baroque church in the shape of a Latin cross was built in 1638. Having suffered a number of fires, it was rebuilt in the late 18th century according to the project of the famous architect Johann Christoph Glaubitz, decorating the interior in Late Baroque stucco mouldings and new iconostasis with impressive columns and sculptures. There is a male monastery built next to the church.

According to a legend, Juliana, the wife of Grand Duke Algirdas, built the first church here. After the building burnt down, a new Gothic church with Byzantine style elements was erected in 1514. It was severely damaged during the fire of 1748. It was reconstructed changing the architecture of the building by decorating its facades and the heightened tower baroque style. In the 19th century, the reconstructed church was decorated Byzantine style. This is when a chapel with a mosaic of St. Michael the Archangel created at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg inside of it was built. Despite the reconstructions, the church has preserved many authentic Gothic elements - old masonry, interior elements and valuable pieces of Byzantine art.

According to legends, in 1345, Maria, the wife of the Grand Duke Algirdas, initiated the construction of an orthodox church, also known as the Church of the Martyr of the 3rd century St Parasceve, in the place where a pagan temple to the God Ragutis once stood. After being destroyed in a fire, a new church was built at the end of the 16th century. The Russian czar Peter I (Peter the Great) visited the church in 1705 and 1708 and presented to it flags taken from the Swedish array. His African protege, Hannibal, who was later made a general and married a noble Russian, was baptized in this church during the visit of the Czar. The talented Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin was Hannibal's grandchild. The present church was built in 1865 according to the project of Nikolay Chagin. It is a Lithuanian orthodox parish.

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