St. Joseph's Church, Kėdainiai, Lithuania

The wooden St. Joseph's Church was built in 1766. It was originally part of the Carmelites monastery, but the monastery was closed in 1832. Later the church was used as a barracks, but restored to worship use in last years.

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Raimundas S (2 years ago)
Ok

Tomasz Laszko (3 years ago)
White wooden flooring worth seeing and...kneeling!

Eimantas Android (5 years ago)
Big. Wooden. Nice.

Andrejus Jedemskis (5 years ago)
When was mass half of people was outside freazing

Ausrine Valdajeva (5 years ago)
Lovely place... used to be full of people and had children and young adults choir 10 years ago... might still be same...

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