Костел Святых апостолов Петра и Павла

Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Ivye

The church, a monument of architecture in the Baroque style, was built in the second half of the XVIII century in the place of an older Gothic church, the construction of which dates back to 1491-1495 years. In the second half of the XVI century the church was redesigned into a  Calvinist cathedral, but soon Ivye was given to the magnate Jan Kishka, who spread Arianism in his lands. The Arians founded a printing house and a school at the church, and Jan Namyslowski was a rector there in 1585-1593.
In 1612, the church was returned to the Catholics. In 1633 the church was rebuilt and enlarged on the funds of the voivode Nikolai Kishka. In the same period the church was given to the Bernardines and a residential building of monks was built next to the temple (partially maintained).
During the Russian-Polish war in 1654-1667 the church was burned to the ground. At the end of the XVIII century the construction of a new Baroque church began in the same place.
It was consecrated in 1787. In 1858 the Bernardine monastery was closed and the church became a parish.
The temple is a single-nave two-tower building of the hall type. The nave is surmounted by cylindrical vaults, and the nave ends with a five-sided apse in the altar part. The main facade of the temple is divided into two levels by an eave, the lower one is decorated with thin pilasters, and the upper one consists of two figured towers with faceted domes and a central attic between them. Stepped buttresses are at the corners of the main building and the apse.
A residential building of the former Franciscan monastery is next to the church. The western and partly eastern wings of the residential building have been preserved.
There is a statue of Christ next to the church.
The temple is included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus.