Zhirovichi Holy Dormition Monastery - Slonim

In the middle of the 18th century, slightly in a distance from the historic center, the fine church was built – its shape strikes guests with richness of finishing and plasticity of forms. The towers located at an angle, numerous niches and graceful lines betray to the temple special charm. Having passed through destructions, use under warehouses of a pickles and restoration – he everything also gracefully welcomes inhabitants and guests of Slonim.

Benedictines – the oldest Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century. They live in work and a prayer and train representatives of the "secular" world – more often it is girls from the shlyakhetskikh of families. In Slonim the monastery the benediktinok has been based by the wife of the Smolensk substeward. Nuns have come from the liquidated Smolensk monastery and were called as the Smolensk exiles. How their fate in Slonim was? You learn about it during the excursion.

Slonim synagogue is one of the oldest surviving synagogues in Belarus. The architectural dominant of the old shopping area organically combines the defensive character and graceful baroque facades. Of particular interest is the well-preserved interior: the bima - an elevation for holding religious rituals - with ancient frescoes on the dome, stucco, painted or covered with gilding. The murals on the walls of the synagogue tell about the centuries-old Jewish culture.

In the middle of the 15th century of the shepherdess among dense branches of a wild pear noticed a bright luminescence – found a small image of the Mother of God here and brought to the owner... Many miracles happened to image before the boyar Soltan built the monastery here. Now the life-giving image of a small icon enters one hundred most esteemed shrines of the orthodox world. For 500 years the Zhirovichsky Sacred and Uspensky monastery is Orthodoxy stronghold on the Belarusian lands. An excursion on the main center of the Belarusian Orthodoxy and the architectural complex of 17-18 centuries, largest in the country, and an okunaniye in a font traditionally accompany a trip to Zhirovichi.