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2 Roubles Orthodox church of St. Michael the Archangel. Synkavichy

Issuer National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Year 2021
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Currency Third Rouble (2016-date)
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Obverse lettering БЕЛАРУСЬ 2 РУБЛI
(Translation: Belarus 2 Roubles)
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Edge Lettered: repeating inscription BELARUS
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The Orthodox Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Synkavichy is one of the oldest surviving Gothic religious structures in Belarus, built in the late 15th or early 16th century — an architectural rarity in a region where most structures of that period were destroyed across successive wars. Its defensive towers mark it as a fortified church, a design more common in Catholic Poland-Lithuania than in Orthodox ecclesiastical architecture, reflecting the complex confessional geography of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the time of its construction.

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