The Cathedral Church of St. Stanislav

The Cathedral of St. Stanislav is shrouded in secrets. Previously, this monument of art and architecture of the XVIII century was called the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God and belonged to the order of the Carmelites, known since the XII century. In Mogilev, the Carmelites appeared in the XVII century, and the local monastery became a kind of branch of their Belynichsky monastery.

For a century on the site of the current stone church stood wooden. There is either a legend or a story about the case, which resulted in the decree of the Polish king "the inhabitants of the city must dismantle all the stone buildings and build a church from this stone..." The foundation of the building of stones of various sizes speaks in favor of this legend. The construction of the stone church was completed in 1752, and from 1773 it became a cathedral.

From the point of view of architecture, the church of St. Stanislav is an example of Western European Baroque. However, rebuilt, for example, at the end of the XVIII century, the architecture of the church was decorated with a classic 4-column portico. One of the most complete and professionally executed Belarusian pictorial cycles on the Gospel plot has been preserved here. The frescoes of unambiguous artistic value are dated to the second half of the XVIII century and made by Belarusian artists.