Kalvaryja
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- Kaĺvaryjskija Cemetery
- heritage designation
- Cultural heritage of Belarus
- category for people buried here
- Q7979547
- inception
- 1808-00-00
- native label
- Кальварыйскія могілкі
- time of earliest written record
- 1800-00-00
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Kalvaryja (Belarusian: Кальварыя, , ) is a Catholic Calvary cemetery in Minsk, Belarus.
The cemetery contains a small Catholic chapel, currently used for general worship. The original wooden Catholic church was first built here back in 1673, but currently the oldest remaining graves are from 1808. The small chapel was built in 1839. Several famous Polish and Belarusian personalities from the 19th century are buried at Kalvaryja.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalvaryja” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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