Church of Saint Anthony of Padua (Dwarec)

Church of Saint Anthony of Padua
Касцёл Божага Цела
53°24′39″N 25°34′30″E / 53.41087°N 25.57506°E / 53.41087; 25.57506
Location	Dwarec
Country	Belarus
Denomination	Roman Catholic church
Architecture
Style	Neo-Baroque
Completed	1904
Administration
Diocese	Roman Catholic Diocese of Grodno

Church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Dwarec is a Roman Catholic church in Belarus, listed as a national Cultural heritage monument. In some sources it is called Corpus Christi church.^[1]

First written mentions of Dvarec date back to the early 15th century. Since 1451 several generations of the Kęsgaila family owned the town. In 1516 they established a Catholic parish in the town. In the 17th century the church had an icon of St Mary that was considered a miraculous one.^[2]

The old wooden church was demolished in the early 1900s and a Neo-Baroque stone church was built in its place by 1904. It was consecrated in the name of Saint Anthony of Padua.^[2]

After the World War II the church was closed and used as stables. It was restored only almost 50 years later, in 1989, and reconsecrated in 1990.^[1]

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  The church in 1918
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  In the 1930s
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  Between 1941 and 1944

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• Kulagin, A. M. (1986). Збор помнікаў гісторыі і культуры. Гродзенская вобласць [Historical and Cultural Monuments of Grodno region]. Minsk: Беларуская Савецкая Энцыклапедыя імя Петруся Броўкі. p. 174.