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20 Roubles St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Kamai, a prominent example of Belarusian Baroque defensive-church architecture dating to the 17th–18th centuries, is shown in the central field. The church facade features twin towers and characteristic architectural detailing rendered in high relief. A flock of birds in flight appears above the church in the upper field. The inscription КАМАІ arcs across the upper left, with ПОМНІКІ АРХІТЭКТУРЫ БЕЛАРУСІ below it, and КАСЦЁЛ ЯНА ХРЫСЦІЦЕЛЯ inscribed to the right, all in Cyrillic. |
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Part of Belarus's long-running architectural heritage silver series, this issue commemorates the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Kamyenyets — one of the few surviving Gothic brick churches in the region, originally constructed in the late fifteenth century under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The church endured suppressions under Russian Imperial rule, when Catholic institutions across the western guberniyas faced systematic closure or conversion to Orthodox use following the failed Polish uprisings of the nineteenth century.