Church of the Blessed Sacrament or Corpus Christi Church ( lt, Kauno Švč. Sakramento bažnyčia or ) is a

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church in the

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Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...

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. The church was damaged by the

Napoleonic Army Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

in 1812 and together with the Dominican Monastery was closed in 1845 by the order of Russian tsar

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, in 1865 it was converted into an

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church.

Gallery

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Apse In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...

Kaunas, Sakramento bažnyčia, mozaika.JPG,

Mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

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References

17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Lithuania Roman Catholic churches in Kaunas Baroque architecture in Lithuania {{Lithuania-church-stub