St.Mikhail’s Catholic Church

The first wooden St. Mikhail’s and St. Alexei’s Catholic Church was built in 1503 from the donation of Brest Voevode Yuriy Zenovich. His son Hristofor was a Genevan and started construction of a Genevan Cathedral instead of the old church. But his descendants Mikolai and Sofia Zavishas in 1621 accepted Catholicism and handed the Genevan church over to the Catholics. From hence it received the name of St.Trinity. In 1866 the church was rebuilt once again as the Orthodox St.Mikhail’s Church and in 1921 returned back to the Catholic parish.

The church has and unusual structure: and eight-sided base for the main building and alongside a many tiered belfry with a hipped roof and an octagonal drum on top attached to the main façade. Where the belfry connects to the building there stands a circular defensive tower. The headstones of the Dukes Zenovichs are kept in the vaults.