MINSK, 7 January (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko is visiting the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Minsk on 7 January, BelTA has learned.
According to the tradition, the head of state will light a Christmas candle, talk to parishioners.
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was built in 2020 in Timiryazeva Street. It is a single-dome temple built in the classical church architecture traditions in the form of a cross with a small baptistery (an annex to the church or a separate building intended for baptism services) in the basement. The church is part of an architectural complex that includes an entrance foyer with a bell tower, a parish house for a Sunday school, and a museum honoring Soviet prisoners of war, the prisoners of Stalag-352 Nazi concentration camp in Minsk.
The new church stands next to the Masyukovshshina Death Camp memorial complex built in honor of more than 80,000 prisoners of war and Soviet civilians tortured in the German concentration camp during the Great Patriotic War.
