Cathedral of the Holy Name of Mary ( be, Архікатэдральны касцёл Найсвяцейшага Імя Найсвяцейшай Панны Марыі, pl, Archikatedra Najświętszego Imienia Najświętszej Maryi Panny, ''Archikatedralny kascioł Imia Najsviaciejšaj Panny Maryi'') is a
Roman Catholic baroque
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cathedral in
Minsk. It is the seat of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev.
It was built under the Polish rule in 1710 as a church for the
Jesuit
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house. In 1793, after the Russian conquest of
Belarusian part of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Jesuit order was banned and the church got a local status. Soon, after creation of the Minsk diocese, the church became the local cathedral.
The cathedral was heavily damaged in a fire in 1797, but was later fully renewed. In 1869, the Minsk diocese was liquidated and the church got a
parafial status. In November 1917, the diocese was restored;
Zygmunt Lazinski Zygmunt, Zigmunt, Zigmund and spelling variations thereof are masculine given names and occasionally surnames. People so named include:
Given name Medieval period
* Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548), Zygmunt I Stary in Polish, King of Poland and Gr ...
was appointed as a bishop.
In 1920, Lazinski was arrested by
Soviet authorities, the cathedral was closed down in 1934.
During the
Second World War, the Germans allowed the cathedral to function again, but after the war it was again closed down by the Soviets. In 1951, the cathedral's bell towers were intentionally destroyed by Soviet artillery and the building itself was given to the
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sports society.
In the beginning of the 1990s, religious services started again. In 1993, the building was given back to the Roman Catholics; by 1997 it had been renovated.
In 2005, the church was given a new organ manufactured in Austria. Around the same time, the frescoes created in the 18th century were also restored.
See also
*
List of Jesuit sites
External links
*
The Cathedral's official website
Roman Catholic churches in Minsk
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Belarus
Landmarks in Belarus
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1710
18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Belarus
Baroque church buildings in Belarus
1710 establishments in Europe
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