Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the town of Borisov, was built on the initiative of the Borisov City mayor Adam Kazanovich in 1642. The church was made of wood and burned during the devastating fire in 1806. Construction of new brick church started immediately, in the year of fire, but it was stretched by as much as 17 years. Only in 1823 the church was consecrated.

In 1937 Borisov Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary suddenly he appeared in the center of the spy scandal. The abbot Adolf Kshevitsky was accused of espionage and imprisoned, but after him in the torture chambers of the NKVD on the same ridiculous accusation pleased all the worshipers the Catholic church, including an elderly cleaning woman. Of course, after that no one has ever seen the arrested people. Mysteriously disappeared very valuable church utensils and other property. But there was a big convenience store all different, that had to be kept for the massive impregnable walls of the former church.

In 1945 he decided to make a movie theater in the temple. High bell tower with a cross demolished, valuable frescoes plastered and made an entertainment facility for the urban public. The time was after the war, like all fun and pleasure.

In 1965 the city built a cinema. No one needs in a former temple gave medical school, future nurse to use it as a gym. But soon the college, former church became not needed, since the institution built a new comfortable spacious building with its own gym.

The former temple was empty and began to deteriorate rapidly. They wanted to make him an exhibition hall, but too late - too much already required costs for its restoration.

And then, October 24, 1988 the church finally guessed pass Catholics. Small Borisov community helped Western Catholics, and soon Borisov ascended proud chetyrehyarusnaya snow-white bell tower with radiant Catholic cross. In 1990, the church re-consecrated by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, whose name is inextricably linked with the revival of the Catholic traditions of Belarus and Russia.

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