St Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk

St Sophia in Polotsk was founded in the middle of the eleventh century under Prince Vseslav Bryachislavich as one of the three Sophia cathedrals of early Rus and the first stone church on Belarusian soil. Of that building only the foundations and fragments of wall remain, for the cathedral burned and in 1710 a powder store exploded inside it. The present building with its two towers was put up between 1738 and 1750 in the Vilnius baroque style, and it now holds a museum and an organ hall.

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