Description of the attraction
The Transfiguration Orthodox Church in Slonim was founded, according to some sources, in the 16th century. There was also a church school, a monastery and an almshouse at the temple.
After the conclusion of the Union of Brest, in 1650 in Slonim, next to the Orthodox Church, the Church of the Body of God was founded. The founder of the church was the Marshal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Jan Stanislav Sapega, who invited Lateran canons and an Italian architect to Slonim, who built a copy of the Il Jezu temple in Rome in Slonim. In the church there were famous icons by F. Smuglevich. The Savior Transfiguration Church was confiscated by the Uniates.
After Slonim came under Russian jurisdiction, Uniate and Catholic churches were persecuted. In 1848, the old Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior burned down, they decided to rebuild the Church of the Body of God into an Orthodox church.
After the Great Patriotic War, the temple, badly damaged by the Nazi bombings, stood in ruins for a long time, but in 1963 it was blown up and finally dismantled.
In 1994, the revival of the Transfiguration Cathedral began. For some reason, it was decided to revive not the original Orthodox church, but the Corpus Christi church rebuilt in the Byzantine style.
On October 17, 2010, the Archbishop of Novogrudok and Lida illuminated the new Transfiguration Cathedral in Slonim. After the restoration of the temple, it turned out that the monument to Lenin points to the new temple with a fatherly hand, showing the direction in which to go.
