the zhirovichi monastery is a place of amazing history and spiritual strength, the heart beats here, orthodox belarus is the national treasure of the country. this is the abode in which the legendary shrine, the fatty icon of the mother of god, has been kept for many centuries, and there is no such person on belarusian soil who would not know about this our greatest shrine today, the holy dormition zhirovichi monastery is the largest monastic complex in the country, on the territory of which five churches are located. 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. a