St. Nicholas Garrison Cathedral

St. Nicholas Garrison Cathedral is a church in Brest Oblast, Belarus. St. Nicholas Garrison Cathedral is situated near the suburb Brest Fortress, as well as near Руіны інжынернага ўпраўлення.

Photo: Sviatlana Hrynko, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Email: forts.hram.cerkov.ru@gmail.com
Type: Church
Denomination: Orthodox
Description: cultural heritage site of category 3 (regional significance), code 113Г000005
Also known as: “Cerkiew Garnizonowa w Brześciu”, “Fortress church of Saint Nicholas in Brest”, “Sabor Sviatoha Mikalaja”, and “Мікалаеўская царква”
Address: Крэпасць, Брэст, 224018

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Mukhavets and Berestye Archeological Museum.

Mukhavets

River

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The Mukhavets is a river in western Belarus. A tributary of the Bug River, the Mukhavets rises in Pruzhany, Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Vyets canal converge, flows through south-western Belarus and merges with the Bug River in Brest.

Berestye Archeological Museum

Museum

Photo: Чаховіч Уладзіслаў, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Berestye Archeological Museum, located in the city of Brest, Belarus, is a museum centered around an archaeological site displaying an authentic East Slavic wooden town dating back to the 13th century. Berestye Archeological Museum is situated 300 metres south of St. Nicholas Garrison Cathedral.

Brest Castle

Archaeological site

Brest Castle evolved in the course of several centuries from the Slavonic fortified settlement Berestye that had appeared at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries at the confluence of the Mukhavets River into the Bug River, amid islands, formed by the rivers. Brest Castle is situated 250 metres south of St. Nicholas Garrison Cathedral.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brest Fortress and Brest Fortress Citadel.

Brest Fortress

Suburb

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Brest Fortress formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first week of Operation Barbarossa, when Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.