Catholic cathedral of Peter and Paul
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Catholic cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul can rightly be called the heart of Kamenetz-Podolsk. To visit the city and not visit this temple - it's like to spend time in vain. This unique ensemble was created from the XV to XVI century, however, and in later years he was repeatedly rebuilt and expanded. Thus, the walls of the church rose chapel of the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Consolation, Holy Communion, chancel, bell tower.

In the period of Turkish rule the church was turned into a mosque and it was up to the expulsion of the Turks from the hem. But a relatively short period of Turkish rule did not pass unnoticed for the church - on the west side was built minaret. After returning to Kamenetz-Podolsk under Polish rule minaret did not understand, and left, and in 1756 it was decorated with a bronze statue of the Madonna, trampling the crescent - the symbol of Islam. Over the next two centuries, the church was rebuilt in neo-Gothic and Baroque style, and its interior was painted in the Italian style, typical of the XVI century.

The interior of the church is extremely attractive - stained glass, wood carvings and paintings in harmony with the sounds of the old organ, made in the mid-nineteenth century on the order. Of particular interest is located in the temple tombstone Laura Pshezdetskoy, carved from a single piece of Italian marble in the form of lying on the couch tragically dead girl. This work is so thin that it seems that every strand of hair Laura - real.

No less beautiful and courtyard of the church, which is located where the rose garden and the monuments to Pope John Paul II, as well as celebrities, based on novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jerzy Volodyevskomu, who died during the siege of the city by the Turks.

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