zhirovichi monastery , the renewal began in the 2000s with the fraternal buildings and the minsk theological seminaryd then a serious building tool touched the temple, a biography, which in half a thousand years as many cult and in general, the ancient building changed me and the cathedral also changed its appearance . e. well, here is the very first documentary evidence of the construction of the stone assumption cathedral in the zhirovichi monastery. they belong to the middle of the xvi century, then in the uniate period, which began in 1613 year. the e of the cathedral was repeatedly completed and rebuilt; here, at least three such significant repairs are known. today we have before us the appearance of the cathedral, which still remembers the reign of emperor alexander ii and no matter how the borders of states change, the circumstances of the foundations. no matter what warriors passed over the monastery, like a dome from them in the forty- fourth year, when the soviet army was advancing, german aircraft bombed around the monastery, or maybe they wanted to get into the monastery, and right oppos

the minsk theological seminary fraternal building of the pilgrims' refectory houses is the largest religious center of the country, and the fruit of the orthodox faith, which, of course, has gone through different times, but has always served people. and the history of the spiritual center in the town of zhirovichi began more than half a thousand years ago with the miraculous appearance of the icon of the mother of god, which appeared in 1470. it was here at the time. can to say, not a prolast forest and this forest belonged to pan sun, a well-known citizen of the grand duchy of lithuania , more precisely, under the sorrow of the grand duchy. according to legend, the landowner alexander solton lived in these places in the 15th century, his shepherds found in the branches of a wild pear tree, from under which a living spring filled the miraculous icon of the mother of god solton built an orthodox church on this site. now it is the assumption cathedral in zhirovichi since that time. ah. the icon was here in this place. first, a wooden church was built. and in 1520? there was a second acquisiti

here in 1947, the minsk theological seminary was opened in zhirovichi, the first renaissance was resumedthird year at the height of khrushchev's persecution. it was already closed and the authorities had plans for the monastery, so that they wanted to close it in the cathedral. uh, because it was already working in zhirovichi . today there is an agrarian-technical college, then it was called a technical school. here they planned to place agricultural training equipment in the cathedral in the cathedral, that is, it is used as such a workshop, well a large room. yes, yes, here are other monastic buildings. also grab it somehow to use it, but again , by the grace of god, this did not happen. yes, and how the plans were, but on the protection of the feast of the intercession of the most holy theotokos on october 14, 1964 , some sergeyevich was removed and all these plans at once. were safely forgotten. so the monastery, all these years, it continued to exist for pilgrims drove on may 20 to the st. zhirovitskaya icon of the mother of god , how many peers and went to thousands it has been des