Catholic Church of St. Casimir in Logoysk
In 1609, Alexander Yuryevich Tyszkiewicz, the grandson of the founder of the famous magnate family, adopted Catholicism and to mark the transition to the Latin rite he founded the Catholic Church under the title of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Casimir in Logoysk. The temple was built on the hill over the river Gayna. Then it was a small wooden church, which burned during the war with Russia in 1655, but newly constructed it was destroyed during the Swedish invasion in 1706 once again.
In 1709 a wooden church rose above Logoysk again. It was a hall church in the shape of a cross with two towers and two narthexes, covered with shingles. A small tower rose above the front of the main facade, the other that looks like the first one was above the main altar and one more tower was in the center of the church. The church had the suspended ceiling supported by the beams. The interior of the church was decorated with four
Wooden Church of 1609
On April 17, 1787 General of Lithuanian troops, Count Tyszkiewicz started building a new stone church in Logoysk. His son Vincent completed the construction of the church and on the 20th of October 1793 a new church in the Classical style was consecrated under the same title of St. Casimir. The building had a square shaped hall 31 arshins in length, and 16 arshins in width (about 22×11,4 m) and was covered with a gable shingled roof. It also had a small temple tower right above the altar and was flanked by
In 1907, the church territory was surrounded by a new stone fence with a gate in the form of brick plaster pillars. A
Church before the war
The Church of St. Casimir existed until 1950, but then it was closed and with time it was dismantled.
Catholic Church in the
And the chapel at the cemetery was destroyed too. In the late 1980s the cross was set up in this place and believers began to seek permission for the construction of a new church. In the summer of 1999 construction works were over, and on 19 June the church was consecrated under the title of Saint Casimir once again. It is a
Plan of the New Church in Logoysk
Since the beginning of the twentieth century a wooden chapel at the cemetery in the village Horuzhentsy served the western part of the parish of Logoysk. The icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary was at its altar. The chapel functioned until the end of the 1930s.