Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration
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Church of the Transfiguration, also called the Church of Corpus Christi and White Headlight - one of the oldest Catholic churches in Belarus. It was founded in 1395 shortly after the baptism of the Lithuanian Duke Vytautas and was named All Saints Church.

In 1422 the temple was lawfully married Polish king Wladyslaw Jagiello with a young Princess Sophia Golshanskaya. This event is on the wall of the church a memorial plaque in Polish: "In this shrine in 1422, Vladislav Jagiello, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, has married Princess Sophia Golshanskaya, the future mother of Polish kings and Vladislav Varnenchik Casimir Jagiellonian".

In 1624, a stone church was built on the initiative and at the expense of Christopher Chodkiewicz. In 1631 it was added two chapels and Ekspedita Holy Guardian Angels. In 1662, the church was almost completely destroyed during the Russian-Polish war. In 1714, construction began on a new stone church, whose first stone was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Vilnius Maciej Jozef Antsut. In 1723, construction was completed and the church was consecrated in honor of Corpus Christi.

February 12, 1799 in this church was baptized the future great Belarusian poet Adam Mickiewicz.

In 1857, after the transition of Western Belarus into the Russian Empire, the church was closed by the tsarist authorities, who are not even allowed to repair the shrine. In 1921, after joining Navagrudak of Poland, the temple was rebuilt and re-consecrated.

Until 1991, in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were the bodies buried 11 Sisters nazaretyanok shot by the Gestapo August 1, 1943, and canonized.

From 1948 to 1992 the church was closed by the Soviet authorities. In 1992 the church was returned to believers. In 1997, the church was opened after restoration.

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