Grodno or Hrodna is a city in western Belarus.
The city is located on the Neman River.
Karl Marx Street
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Branch of Alfa-Bank, Eliza Ozheshko street
(paper, watercolor)
Holy Intercession Cathedral or the Cathedral in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos is an Orthodox church in the city of Grodno, the cathedral church of the Grodno diocese of Belarus Orthodox Church. The temple is distinguished by the design of portals and windows and some elements of the external decoration, with which the correspondence to the style was achieved. The dimensions and artistic design of the temple are similar to the Daugavpils Cathedral of Saints Boris and Gleb, which is considered the largest Orthodox cathedral in Latvia.
Holy Intercession Cathedral
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(paper, colored ink)
The Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier stands on Batory Square (now: Soviet Square). The cathedral was a Jesuit church until 1773.
This specimen of high Baroque architecture, exceeding 50 metres in height, was started in 1678. Due to wars that rocked Poland-Lithuania at that time, the cathedral was consecrated only 27 years later, in the presence of Peter the Great and Augustus the Strong. Its late Baroque frescoes were executed in 1752.
The Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier
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The Lutheran Church of St. John is a Protestant church in Grodno, located on May 1st, 5. It was first mentioned in 1793.
An architectural monument in neo-gothic style.
Kirkha is included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of
the Republic of Belarus.
St. John's Lutheran Church
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St. John's Lutheran Church
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The town was planned to be dominated by the Old Grodno Castle, first built in stone by Grand Duke Vytautas and thoroughly rebuilt in the Renaissance style by Scotto from Parma at the behest of Stefan Batory, who made the castle his principal residence. Batory died at this palace seven years later (December 1586) and originally was interred in Grodno. (His autopsy there was the first to take place in Eastern Europe.) After his death, the castle was altered on numerous occasions, although a 17th-century stone arch bridge linking it with the city still survives. The Wettin monarchs of Poland were dissatisfied with the old residence and commissioned Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann to design the New Grodno Castle, whose once sumptuous Baroque interiors were destroyed during
World War II.
the Old Grodno Castle
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