sophia cathedral, built in the middle of the 14th century by the famous polotsk prince vseslav. while the time of the founding of the polotsk see does not cause much disagreement among historians, the circumstances of the emergence of another of the oldest turov diocese are not entirely clear. kiev-pechersk five, edited by archimandrite joseph trizny, names the date of the founding of the turov diocese: however, a number of researchers talk about the simultaneity of the establishment of the polotsk and turov dioceses (900). these stones remember st. cyril, perhaps it was from here that he delivered his sermons to everyone. the kiev prince sends his eldest son svyatopolk to the turov throne, who had barely reached 12 years old by that time, which is why the bishop was under the prince ; the turov diocese was created, uniting a vast territory, the lands of the turov principality, upper ponimonia, the northern part volyn principality. thus, turov acted as the religious center of the entire southern and western belarus. a monument to the early adoption of christianity in turov is th