Church Attractions In Hlybokaye

Hlybokaye or Glubokoye is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus, the capital of Hlybokaye Raion . The city is located on the international road from Polotsk to Vilnius with the historic railway line to Woropajewo completed in 1932 in the interwar Poland . It has 18,200 inhabitants as of 2010.Within the city limits there are two smaller lakes: Kahalnaye and Grand from which the Birchwood river originates . The first written records about the settlement date back to 1514. During World War II in occupied Poland the town's district of Berezwecz was the location of a massacre of up to 2,000–3,000 Polish prisoners by the Soviet NKVD secret police. As late as 2...
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Church Attractions In Hlybokaye

1. Saint Sophia Cathedral Polotsk
The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Polotsk was built by Prince Vseslav Briacheslavich between 1044 and 1066. It stands at the confluence of the Polota and Western Dvina Rivers on the eastern side of the city and is probably the oldest church in Belarus. The cathedral is, like the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, named after the Holy Wisdom of God. After building his own cathedral, Vseslav, who was an izgoi prince, tried to seize the Kievan throne. Failing in that attempt, he raided the surrounding principalities; in 1067, he raided Novgorod the Great and looted the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom there, bringing a bell and other loot back to decorate his own Cathedral of Holy Wisdom. The cathedral is mentioned in The Tale of Igor's Campaign, where it says that V...
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Church Attractions In Hlybokaye

Church Attractions In Hlybokaye

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