St. Alexander Nevsky Church

St. Alexander Nevsky Church in Voranava is a wooden Orthodox church built from 1993 to 2000.

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St. Michael's Cathedral

St. Michael's Cathedral is a rare example of a rotunda church in the Catholic architecture of Belarus. It was built as the church of the Piarist monastery in Lida, between 1797 and 1825, and was dedicated to St. Joseph. The monastery was closed in 1832 and the church burnt down in 1842. In 1863 it was converted into an Orthodox church and dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. After the Second World War, the building was converted into a planetarium and did not return to its original use until after independence.

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Iwye Mosque

The Iwye Mosque is a monument of wooden architecture built in 1884. A minaret and a gallery were made with the money of Tatar emigrants from the United States in 1922. Initially, the main façade was decorated with a gallery on 4 pillars with curved uprights (in the 1970s it was replaced by a low vestibule).

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Keturiasdešimt Totorių Mosque

The Tatar mosque of Keturiasdešimt Totorių was built in 1815 on a former mosque site from the reign of Vytautas the Great (1392 - 1430). The building has a rectangular plan with a square roof. At the top of the roof is a small minaret turret. It is octagonal, onion-shaped, with glass windows and a crescent-shaped point. The building was renovated in 1993.