Church of St. Vladislav in Subbotniki

In the village Subbotniki, Grodno region is a Catholic Church of St. Vladislav, which is included in the Cultural Properties of Belarus.

In 1545 in Subbotniki was established the Catholic community and was errected the church of St. George. The church was built of pine wood and had cement-base. In 1904 it was erected a new church of St. Vladislav the Hungarian. The modern building of red brick temple in the Gothic Revival style was built in 1904-1907 at the expense graphs Yanina and Vladislav Umyastovski.

The building has a rectangular base 30 meters, a width - height of 20 and 32 meters. The temple is covered with a gable roof with a signature. The altar of the church was created in the Warsaw workshop Adalbert. The main image is a silver figure of the King Vladislav the Hungarian. The walls are clearly divided on the parts of the lancet window openings and stepped buttresses to the pier. On the sides of the tower are small faceted volumes stairwells.
Inside the church is divided into a base of the arches of the massive pillars. Ornament paintings inside of the church is designed in neo-rococo style. The walls are decorated with murals, which depict scenes of the Cross, as well as a large number of memorial monuments in honor of family members Umyastovski.

The tomb of the Counts Umyastovski in the crypt of the churchit is of great value. There was buried the builder of the temple - Vladislav Umyastovsky. The tomb was created by masters from Sweden from 1834 to 1905 and was made out of granite, marble and Venetian mosaic. During the Great Patriotic War the Curch was partially destroyed and rebuilt in 1947.

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