Videniškiai Church and Augustine Monastery

Videniškiai Church and Augustine Monastery

The first wooden church was built in 1549. A chapel with a cellar was built in the 17th century (members of the Giedraičiai family were buried there). The church is Renaissance in style, rectangular in plan, with a semicircular apse and a 42 m high facade tower, single nave, covered with a cylindrical canopy with rosettes, there are 5 altars, two relief epitaphs (1639). The fence of the churchyard is stone masonry, with a plastered arched gate. Baroque period building.

You will not see the monks, but you will feel the strength of their spirit and rich cultural past in the frescoes of the middle of the 18th century, made by an unknown professional artist, which are located in the Videniškiai Monastery. Members of the Giedraičiai family were buried in the Videniškiai church, built in the 17th century.

Šilelio g. 2, Videniškiai, Molėtų r. (55.217112, 25.277178) (View map)