Bernardine Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary
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Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Slonim is part of the architectural complex of the Monastery of Bernardine. In 1645, Konstantin Yuditskii donated money to build a monastery for holy sisters who at the time lived in Vilna. He promised his parents that he will build a monastery and Bernardine sisters relocated to Slonim. Bernardinki moved in 1648 and settled in for their built a wooden monastery.

In 1664 construction began on the church, completed in 6 years. In 1696 the church was consecrated by Archbishop Vilensky Constantine Bzhostovskim. In 1751 a modernization of dilapidated and obsolete temple. It was the heyday of the Rococo style. It was built five great altars. The altars and the interior of Bernardine church performed the famous master Johann Gödel. Unfortunately, a fire destroyed this magnificent building. In the form in which the church has reached our days, it was built in 1793. Construction led the architect I. Ovodovich.

In 1864, the tsarist authorities banned the taking of new nurses to the Monastery. The monastery gradually emptied. The building is dilapidated, without proper care. In 1905 he issued a decree on religious freedom, signed by Nicholas II. Already in 1907 the monastery came the first sisters who undertook the restoration of the building on their own. The first opened a school and a boarding school for girls, she is in dire need of an elephant.

During the war, the Nazis shot the two nuns, others expelled the Soviets after the war. Since the end of the war to the present day in the monastery hospital is located. Most recently, the monastery and the church handed over the Catholic Church and the nuns returned to their convent in Slonim. Now the temple - acting.

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