Saint Nicolas' Roman Catholic Church in

Mir ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...

, Belarus, is a Renaissance church commissioned by

Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł Prince Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł ( lt, Mikalojus Kristupas Radvila Našlaitėlis) (2 Augustus 1549 – 28 February 1616) and nicknamed "the Orphan" ( pl, Sierotka, lt, Našlaitėlis), was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic), Or ...

. It was probably designed by

Giovanni Maria Bernardoni Giovanni Maria Bernardoni (1541–1605) was a Jesuit and an Italian architect who was the first to design the Baroque style in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Michael J. Mikoś, ''Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Ant ...

and erected without his personal participation in 1599–1605. The church tower was partly destroyed during the Soviet period, and recently restored.

Sources

* Т. Габрусь, Саборы помняць усё, Мінск, 2007, с. 104–107. (in Belarusian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Nicholas' Church, Mir Roman Catholic churches in Belarus Renaissance architecture in Belarus Radziwiłł family Mir, Belarus Roman Catholic churches completed in 1605 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings