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20 Roubles The Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Belarus launched an extensive architectural commemorative series in the 2000s, and this piece falls within its religious monuments subset — coins that drew occasional criticism domestically for state-sponsored glorification of Orthodox and Catholic heritage in a constitutionally secular republic. The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Minsk is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city, dating to the early 17th century, though it was repurposed as a warehouse and later an archive during the Soviet period before being returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1993.
The pad-printing technique used for colorization was standard for the National Bank's issues of this era, applied over conventional die-struck silver.