Church of Vergin Maria in Shemetovo

Church of Mother of God of the Continued Help in Shemetovo”s estate – a monument of architecture of classicism. The stone church has been put at the end of the XVIII century. In 1902 the temple is expanded and decorated. The main facade of a church is focused to artificial ponds which are a part of landscape park of the former estate. The temple is put on a high socle, in the plan forms a cross. The main rectangular volume is covered with a dvuhskatnyj roof. The rectangular apse enters into the main volume of the temple and is defined by lower trehskatnyj roof. In external registration order elements that is characteristic for architecture of classicism are widely used. The main facade is allocated with 4 columns of the Doric warrant which are put on high bases. Between columns – 2 niches. The main facade comes to the end with a wide frieze and the developed profilirovannyj eaves over which the triangular pediment with a small round window in the center towers.

In the temple center a flat trabeation. Over an input gallery of choruses which lean on two columns. On choruses there is a body. Interior walls are decorated by painting on evangelical themes, decorated by a vegetative ornament. The center of a composition of an interior is the wooden altar decorated by a carving and a sculpture. In the main altar of a temple the icon of Mother Divine Ostrobramsky and over it – an icon of Mother of the Divine Indefatigable Help (it is an exact copy of a wonder-working icon from a church of the St. Gigolo in Rome) is placed. Priest Kazimir Skirmunt, Boleslav”s brother who lived in Rome, has sent this icon in gift for a church of Mother of the Divine Indefatigable Help in Shemetovo. The cross (crucifixion) is offered by Helena Skirmunt in 1863 (it is executed in Vienna at Charles Kilermana”s factory). T

Near to a church a wooden two-story belfry. The high wooden two-story belfry is located to the right of a church, constructed in the XX-th century beginning. The belfry is put on a high stone socle. Its high first circle is strengthened by 8 columns and covered by boards. The second circle low, is less in the section, opened. It 4 angular and 8 additional racks support bells. The belfry by a tent roof with a metal cross is covered.

On July, 1st, 1697 owner Shemetovo Kshishtof the Despot-zenovich has decided to invite in the manor of monks – Carmelites. In a manor of Shemetovo in the beginning there was a wooden chapel, constructed in 1714 Kshishtofom the Despot-zenovichem. The cassimere Sulistrovsky has altered this chapel in a family crypt, simultaneously having begun church building. Possibly, the Cassimere Sulistrovsky in 1816 has constructed stone family каплицу on a place of the wooden. On May, 11th, 1828 priest Andrey Senkevich has consecrated it under a title of the Sacred Cassimere. And building of a wooden church in a place of Shemetovo has been finished in 1810. The same year priest Antony Bagensky has consecrated it under a title of Rise Dominical and in 1813 here there was an arrival. In historical archive in Vilnius from certificates on a christening and on death from archive of the former parish church extracts are stored in Shemetovo, confirmed by the Svirsky dean – priest Andrey Senkevich. It follows from this that arrival to Shemetovo has been based before 1813. From these documents it is possible to learn names of fathers of Carmelites which worked at that time in a church. Carmelite Andrey Bartoshevich appointed in 1813, the last – the father Carmelite Ambrozy Prazhmovsky which worked here till 1832 when the imperial government together with a church in Shemetovo liquidated Carmelite manor. Under some data, the church has been disassembled in 1863. Shemetovsky arrival has been restored only in 1904.

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