All Saints Church

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Temple-monument in honor of ”All Saints in the memory of innocent victims in our Fatherland,” was built in 1996-2008, respectively. In the church with five domes. They symbolize all the saints of Belarus, all the fallen soldiers and victims of no fault in the camps and prisons of children. In 1991 the foundation stone consecrated Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. In October 1996, with the participation of Alexander Lukashenko, Alexy II and Metropolitan Filaret had laid the foundation with an appeal to posterity.

In the crypt of the church is a land of fields, all the great historical battles in defense of the Belarusian land. It burns unquenchable lamp, lit the fire of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The first handful of earth came rector of All-Saints brought from Ekaterinburg, from the place where the royal family was killed. Capsule with the earth will be placed in niches on the walls of the crypt, each cell of the capsule will be closed plate semi-precious stone - onyx.

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Republic of Belarus, Minsk, st. Kalinowski, 121