A year has passed since I've received the last official from Belarus. It was worth the wait, this new card is really great. It depicts the Church of the Nativity of the God's Mother in Muravanka, one of the first fortified churches in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This church is one of the Edifices for Worship of Fortress Type in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.
The church in Muravanka arose in the first half of the 16th century. Church inspections made by the archeologists showed that it was probably built between years 1524 and 1542. The church was severely damaged in 1656 during the war against Russia and in 1706 during the Great Northern War. Then it was empty for many years and restored only in the middle of the 19th century. During World War I the German army used the space of the church as a warehouse for provisions. In the Interwar Poland it was turned into the Roman Catholic church.
In 1990 the church was returned by the Soviet government to the Orthodox believers and has been in use since then. - in: wikipedia
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