Location Pinsk Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country Belarus | |
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Similar Orthodox church of St Barbara, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Assumption of the Blessed, Basilica of Our Lady - Maastricht, Katholische Kirche Mariähim | ||
The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Belarusian: катэдральны Унебаўзяцця Найсвяцейшай Панны Марыі) also called Pinsk Cathedral It is a catholic temple of baroque style of the eighteenth century in Pinsk, a city in the European country of Belarus.
The church and the adjoining Franciscan monastery are Baroque buildings, built between the years 1712 and 1730 on the site of similar wooden buildings funded in 1396 by the Prince of Pinsk, Sigismund I Kęstutaitis. The monastery was closed in 1852, while the church became a parish and in 1925 became the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Pinsk.
The cathedral is a three naves and chapels and a semicircular choir, covered with a high ceiling. At the intersection of the nave with the choir is the tower with a Baroque dome. The hallways are very narrow and much lower in height than in the center. The facade is richly decorated and assumed its present form in 1766. It is a little larger than the body of the building and is divided into three levels, flanked by two square towers covered with baroque domes.