Pass through the main square and turn right – you will see an imposing Catholic church, one of the very few surviving here. This town was first mentioned in chronicles of the 15th century as the residence on the Great Duke. In 1444 Ivye was given to a Novogrudok head of the local community, Petr Montigerdovich, who commenced construction of the first Catholic church here around 1495. In the second half of the 16th century, Ivye established itself as a center for Protestantism in the Great Lithuanian Principality. Printing houses and school were founded. The rector of the school between 1585 and 1593 was a progressive thinker, educational specialist and poet, yan Namyslovsky. During the next three centuries, ownership of the town often changed hands. Among the prominent families who at one time controlled the area were the Slushkas, Glebovichs, Oginskys, Sapegas. Tyzengauzs and Zamoiskys.
Ivye construction was formed throughout its history and affected by the location – it lies at the intersection of roads leading to Minsk, Lida and Novogrudok. At the cross-road there’s the main square. In the central part of the town stand buildings from the beginning of the 19th to the 20 th centuries, the so-called “Jewish houses”, decorated with ornamental design.
St.Peter and Paul Catholic Church and St.Bernard’s Monestry.
Around 1600 Stanislav Kishka founded in Ivye a Catholic church in the fashionable early Baroque style. In 1631, voevode (the military head) from Mstislavl, Mikolai Kishka, founded the St.Bernard’s monastery. All these buildings were burnt to the ground during th 1656 war. The church was rebuilt and sanctified in 1787.
Nowadays, the architectural ensemble consists of the St.Peter and Paul Catholic church and residential buildings (only western and part of the eastern outhouses remain). The monastery is slightly away from the street, separated by an earthen mound that in the old days was of defensive significance. In the 19th century a chapel was attached to the north wall of the church. St.Peter and Paul Catholic Church has six 18th century altars.
Mosque
Tatars settled in Ivye around the 16th century, separately from the Christians, in area called Muravsgchizna. In 1884 the owner of the township, Elvira Zamoiskaya, made a donation for the building of a mosque. In 1922, emigrant Tatars donated money and a minaret was added. Local Tatars are followers of the Sunni school of Islam. The mosque has never been closed and operated even during the most difficult days of the Soviet antireligious struggle.
Pass through the main square and turn right – you will see an imposing Catholic church, one of the very few surviving here. This town was first mentioned in chronicles of the 15th century as the residence on the Great Duke. In 1444 Ivye was given to a Novogrudok head of the local community, Petr Montigerdovich, who commenced construction of the first Catholic church here around 1495. In the second half of the 16th century, Ivye established itself as a center for Protestantism in the Great Lithuanian Principality. Printing houses and school were founded. The rector of the school between 1585 and 1593 was a progressive thinker, educational specialist and poet, yan Namyslovsky. During the next three centuries, ownership of the town often changed hands. Among the prominent families who at one time controlled the area were the Slushkas, Glebovichs, Oginskys, Sapegas. Tyzengauzs and Zamoiskys.
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