Gravestones monument to those killed in battle near Khotyn in 1621
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Type: Cemeteries, burial places, chapels, Monuments
Date of Foundation: 1643 year
Status: Republican value
Republic of Belarus, Grodno region, Novogrudok, 1 st May str., 17
Gravestones monument to those killed in battle near Khotyn in 1621 is set to Novogrudsky Farn Catholic church of the Transfiguration in 1643. Monument came by order of the abbot of the temple Novogrudskii Jan Rudamin in memory of his brother and neighbors who were killed in battle with the Turks in 1621.
In the center of the plate to be bas-relief of 9 figures and Jan Rudamin. At the bottom of the monument depicts the defeated enemy to cut off their heads with turbans, at the top - the relief image of the Mother of God with a child. On the plate engraved text in Latin with a list of titles and names of victims.