Smorgon district
In Smorgon region there are 33 objects of historical and cultural heritage: 16 monuments of architecture, 3 historical monuments, 14 monuments of archeology.
Architectural monuments
Catholic church of St. Michael the Archangel
Location: Smorgon, st. P. Babyshka, 1
Geographical coordinates: 54.478909, 26.402560
The first wooden church in the city was founded in 1503 by the owner of Smorgon, Yuri Zenovich. In 1553 (according to other sources, in 1606-1612), his grandson, also named Yuri Zenovich, built a stone Calvinsky church, which was transferred to Catholic church in 1621. In 1866-1918 the church was used as an Orthodox church. During the First World War, it was significantly damaged. In 1923-1926 the church was restored and handed over to the Catholics. The temple operated until 1947, and then it was used as a warehouse. After the restoration, the temple was adapted to the exhibition hall in 1985-1986 and it acts as a Catholic shrine only since 1990. Catholic Church of St. Michael the Archangel is monument of Renaissance architecture.
The temple was built in accordance with the modest requirements of the Calvinist worship, without the singling out the altar part. The building is a slightly elongated octahedron along the longitudinal axis, to which a multi-tier tower-bell adjoins (2 tiers have been preserved). On the north side, a small sacristy is attached. At the junction of the bell tower and the main building, a cylindrical turret with a twisted staircase is attached to the right of the entrance, which leads to the choir and belfry.
Catholic church of the Holy Trinity
Location: vil. Zhodishki, Pervomayskaya street, 2
Geographical coordinates: 54.623537, 26.442339
The first church in Jodishki was built in 1553 by Ostikovichi, who owned this small town. With the arrival of Calvinist Kishaks in Zhodishki, in 1612 a stone Calvinistic gathering was built here. After repairs the temple is known as the Trinity Church from the beginning of the XIX century. The temple is a monument of Renaissance architecture.
The architecture of the temple is made in simple severe forms. In 1904, after the completion of the transept, the rectangular elongated axis of the shrine was cross-shaped. From the west, the building is adjoined by a lower square in terms of the apse, with sacristy from the north and angular buttresses. The roof of all parts of the building is gable. During the First World War in the building of the temple the Germans organized a hospital, and then in it was a garment factory. At this time, the bell tower which towered above the apse was destroyed. In the 1920s the church building was repaired, but the bell tower was not. In the postwar period, the church was closed and returned to the people only in 1986.
Catholic church of the Holy Apostle Tadeusz
Location: vil. Vishnevo, Centralnaya street, 61a
Geographical coordinates: 54.7143172, 26.5247029
Catholic church of St. Tadeusz in the agro-town of Vishnevo was founded in 1811 from the brick by Brigita Sulistrovskaya. The temple is an elongated rectangular in plan structure, covered with a gable roof. The main facade is made by a four-columned portico with a triangular pediment. In 1866 the church was transformed into an Orthodox church. At the same time, above the square altar in the plan, a turret with a hipped roof was built up. In 1935 the relic was passed to the Catholics again. Catholic church of St. Tadeusz is a monument of architecture of classicism.
Catholic church of the Most Holy Trinity
Location: vil. Vojstom, Smorgonskaya street, 6
Geographical coordinates: 54.573706, 26.617909
The construction of the Most Visible Trinity church in the agro-town Vojstom was started approximately in 1922-1923, and in 1939 the first divine services were held in the unfinished church. According to the project, it was built of brick and quarry stone. The temple is a rectangular structure in the plan, which is covered with a gable roof. The main facade of the building is crowned by a two-tier turret. The altar part and the choirs are equipped with arches. Above the altar is the hip. The volume inside the structure is blocked by a cylindrical vault. The Church of the Most Holy Trinity is a monument of modernist architecture. During the Great Patriotic War, the building of the shrine was turned into a grain warehouse by the Germans.
Catholic church of the Most Holy Trinity
Location: Danyushevo village
Geographical coordinates: 54.556208.26.40693
The Catholic Church of the Most High Trinity was built of tree in 1809 in a place where stood an old church built in the 17th century. It is surrounded by a stone fence with a gate. There is a tent belfry near the temple. The Church of the Holy Trinity is a monument of eclectic architecture. Rectangular in the building is covered with a gable roof. A rectangular apse with lateral low sakristies is attached to the main part. The two-tower main facade is marked with a four-columned portico with a pediment cut through a pointed window.
During the First World War, a German hospital was equipped in the Danyushevsky church. In the 60s the temple was closed. The shrine opened its doors to believers only in the late 1980s.
Catholic church of the Mother of God of the Good Board
Location: Nestanyshki village, 5a
Geographical coordinates: 54.769690, 26.321509
In 1905, for 2 kilometers to the west of the village of Nestanyshki, the church of the Mother of God of the Good Council was built of brick. The church is a monument of Neo-Gothic architecture. This shrine is a three-nave two-towered basilica with a transept and a five-edged apse. On the side of the main facade are two tetrahedral towers-belfries with high spiers. The facade is divided by high stepped buttresses and arched window apertures.
In Soviet times the church was closed, but the building and its interior were preserved. In the early 90's the temple resumed its work.
Catholic church of Mother of God of the Rosary
Location: vil. Soly, Komsomolskaya Str., 1
Geographical coordinates: 54.51616, 26.18009
In the second half of the 16th century in Soly, the first wooden church was built with the funds of Hetman Christopher Radziwill. In 1926-1934 on the site of the old wooden church a modern stone building of the church was erected. The temple was built in the style of Art Nouveau by the architect A. Dubanovic. The construction was carried out at the expense of the parishioners.
The building of the temple has an asymmetric, multidimensional, volumetric-spatial composition. The main volume of the temple is covered with a gable roof. A transept and a semicircular apse is connected to the nave and covered with a separate conical roof. Particular peculiarity of the building is given by side arcades with figured columns. The vertical dominant of the building is a lateral two-tiered tower with a figurative completion. In the decorative design of the church fresco painting was used.
Church of Alexander Nevsky
Location: vil. Krevo, Zarechnaya str., 18
Geographical coordinates: 54.31016, 26.28627
In 1854, the church of Alexander Nevsky was erected from brick and rubble stone. The church is an architectural monument of late classicism and a retrospective Russian style. It consists of a rectangular in terms of the main volume, covered with a gable roof, and a three-tiered bell tower. During the First World War, the temple was badly damaged and was restored only in 1928.
Fragments of the 14th century castle
Location: vil. Krevo
Geographical coordinates: 54.30923, 26.28244
Krevo castle of stone and red brick is one of the first castellas in the GDL, built by Gedimin, the Grand Duke of Lithuania in the XIV century. The castle was a witness and a place of many historical events. In terms of a plan it is a wrong trapezoid. Fragments of the walls reach a height of about 10 m. Today you can see the remains of the Princely Tower, the Small Tower is not preserved. During the First World War, when the front line passed through Krevo, concrete shelters, observation posts, remains of which have survived to this day were built on the territory of the castle in the Little tower and near the wall.
Orthodox church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin
Location: Mikhnevichi village
Geographical coordinates: 54.428889 °, 26.520556 °
The Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin was built in 1866 with funds allocated from the state treasury. The church is a temple of longitudinal-axial composition with a three-tiered tent bell tower, a refectory, a cubical prayer hall, a semicircular apse. Above the sloping four-slope roof of the main volume, an onion-shaped head of an octagonal drum is placed, and above the bell-tower there is a poppy-seed. The temple is an architectural monument of retrospective Russian style.
The 19th century chapel
Location: village Olenets
Geographical coordinates: 54.4206, 26.57687
In the 19th century a stone chapel was built in the village of Olenets. It is a square two-level tower-like structure in the plan, covered with a gable roof with a cross at the end. On the second upper level there is a wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ. The first tier is planar, the second is open on four sides with rectangular apertures in modest arched clypees. Chapel is a monument of national architecture of the XIX century.
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow"
Location: Kevlya village
Geographical coordinates: 54.396546.26.449681
In 1862, the local landowner Oscar Milevsky erected a Catholic church from the rubble stone, which was later transferred to Orthodox believers. The church is a rectangular building in the main volume and an apse, covered with a gable slate roof. On the side of the main facade is a bell tower with a poppy. The temple is a monument of architecture with elements of classicism.
Museum-Estate of Frantsisheck Bogushevich (manor house, park, outbuildings)
Location: vil. Coushlyany
Geographical coordinates: 54.441255, 26.176202
The earliest information about the estate dates from the 18th century. In 1896, Fratsisheck Bogushevich became its full-fledged owner.He built a new house here, where he spent the last years of his life.
Manor house is rectangular, it’s a wooden one-story building under a high gable roof. The main facade is highlighted by a column gallery with a canopy. A park with a fruit garden is located around the manor house. A wooden cylindrical chapel has survived. The servant house is south-west of the main house.
In 1990, to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet, the estate was restored. An exposition dedicated to the life and work of F.K. Bogushevich was created.
The ensemble of the former Oginsky Palace (a palace, a chapel, a park, outbuildings)
Location: vil. Zalesse
Geographical coordinates: 54.419939, 26.522639
In 1802 Michal Kleofas Oginsky, having received from the uncle of Frantisek Xavier the estate of Zalesse, began reorganizing the estate into a new palace and park ensemble. The construction was carried out under the project of M. Schulz with the participation of the architect I. Puse and was completed in 1822.
The palace consisted of two elongated at right angles one-story wings, between which and at the ends of which were two-story pavilions. The decorative fence, fixed between stone pillars, connected the building of the greenhouse with the building of a water mill. The central part of the palace was designated by a portico of four Tuscan columns and was crowned with a small turret, which housed a clock with a battle, having on all four sides dials with arrows. Above the tower a ball was attached, in which there was a special beating time bell. The estate is a monument of architecture of classicism and landscape art.
There is a chapel near the palace. It is a compact rectangular construction with a trihedral apse. Over its hipped roof was built a tetrahedral hipped signature-lantern. The estate of the mill was restored for the manor house. In the park there is a stone arbor. The building of the stables has been preserved on the farmyard. Park, which was laid in the early XIX century, is partially preserved, the basis of the composition of it is a large artificial pond with two islands.
Since 2014, the State Historical and Cultural Institution "Museum-Estate of MK Oginsky" has been located in the composer's palace, and since September 2015 there has been a permanent museum exposition.
Former farmstead: manor house, park
Location: vil. Zhodishki, Pervomaiskaya Str., 12а
Geographical coordinates: 54.621132.26.444146
The farmstead in Zhodishki was built in the 18th century by the project of Tomasz Jabrowski as a Jesuit collegium. In the second half of the XVIII century the collegium was rebuilt into a palace, which is a monument of baroque architecture.
Nowadays, the building of the former palace is a two-story complex, covered with a hip roof. The internal layout of the building is a gallery, the rooms are covered with cross vaults. The building has a vaulted basement floor. Today there is a psychiatric hospital in the former palace. Behind the building there is a small park of landscape type with trees of local breeds.
Water Mill
Location: vil. Zhodishki
Geographical coordinates: 54.620329.26.447011
The water mill in Zhodishki was built in 1871. The basis of the building is a wooden frame and an old stone foundation. Inside, the device remained, with the help of which bags of flour were delivered to the second floor. In the late 1990s, the mill was restored. It was possible to save up to 90% of logs that are up to 150 years old. During the restoration work, the bridge was repaired and the sluices were cleaned.
Historical monuments
Ignaty Khodki family burial
Location: vil. Vojstom
Geographical coordinates: 54.578105, 26.616331
The family burial place of the famous Belarusian-Polish writer and memoirist I. Khodka is a stone grave crypt with four embezzled graves, marked with stone slabs. There is a family crypt in the right corner of the local cemetery. The tombstone at the burial site of I. Khodka contains an epitaph, authored by Vladislav Syrokomlya.
The writer died in 1861 and was buried next to his wife, daughter and grandson.
