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Cemetery in Ivye

Iwje | Belarus
biał. Iuie (Іўе)
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Cemetery in Ivye

Iwje | Belarus
biał. Iuie (Іўе)
Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

According to Lewkowski and Walczak, "five tombstones have survived in the church cemetery. "The oldest dates from 1820 and crowns the grave of Franciszka z Gurskicj Żybortowa. "It is a brass rectangular slab laid horizontally. The surface of the plate is depressed, framed by a simple moulding." It has the following inscription: "D. O. M. / FRANCISZKA Z GURSKICH ŻYBORTOWA / SZAMBELANOWA DWORU POLSKIEGO / DEATH INLITERATELY TREATED JEY / PASMO ŻYCIA W 1820 r. MAIA / ON THE 15TH DAY PLUNGED HER HUSBAND / INTO GREAT SORROW / THE ATTACHED GRANDCHILDREN IN UNBOUNDED LOVE LAYING THIS MONUMENT / ASK PASSERS-BY TO SIGH TO GOD FOR HER SOUL". Noteworthy is also the inscription: "KS. ILDEFONS BOBICZ / DR. PHIL. I TEOL. / PARISH PRIEST OF IWIEJSKI / DEAN OF WISZNIEWSKI / DIED. 28 IV 1944 R. AT THE AGE OF 57".

The researchers mentioned at the beginning also describe a second, "active Catholic cemetery located on the north-western edge of the village (...). The cemetery is located on a flat area, fenced with a stone wall with an entrance on the eastern side, and covers an area of 2.1 ha. It is rectangular in plan, with an east-west path dividing the cemetery into two parts. The cemetery was established around the middle of the 19th century. In the cemetery, opposite the entrance 15 m from the gate, there is a cemetery chapel (...). A date is carved on one of the stones of the southern elevation: "R. 1859", possibly a stone certifying the date of the chapel's construction. (...) The cemetery is dominated by styleless gravestones from the 1st half of the 20th century. A dozen or so tombstones from the late 19th and early 20th centuries have survived, gathered mainly around the chapel. (...) On the tombstones we find repeated names: Trzeciakiewicz, Mikosz Horbacz. The area of the cemetery is overgrown with mixed forest. The condition of the cemetery is good." The oldest gravestone, dating from 1870, belongs to Rev. Antoni Jackiewicz. It has the form of an ox-cut granite boulder with the inscription: "PRIEST ANTONI JACKIEWICZ / PARISH PRIEST OF IWIEJSKIE RZYM. CATOLIC. CHURCH / ACCORDING TO THE HEART OF GOD! UNIVERSALLY ADORED / BORN. 18 JULY 1796 UM. 5 SEPTEMBER 1870 46 YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD / ETERNAL PEACE TO YOUR SOUL VENERABLE PRIEST - THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED BY THE SORROWFUL SIESTRZAN / JAN OLESZKIEWICZ". The inscription occupies the entire face, above which is a cast-iron cross with moulded moulding on the borders.

There is another cemetery here, according to Lewkowski and Walczak, "the active Tatar cemetery is located on Sowiecka Street, 2 km south of the village centre. It is the site of the old Tatar settlement of Mrawszczyzna, now absorbed by the town of Ivye, but still inhabited by people of Tatar origin. (...) The cemetery is rectangular in shape, fenced with a modern fence made of metal strips, with an entrance gate from the eastern side, i.e. Sovetskaya Street. It occupies an area of 1.6 hectares, most of which is vacant land. The area with burials occupies the south-eastern side and is roughly square in shape, covering an area of 0.6 ha. The cemetery was established around the middle of the 19th century.The oldest gravestone on which the date could be read is a granite boulder with an inscription in Arabic and the date '1878', located deep within the cemetery, on its south-western side. Several dozen granite boulders without inscriptions have survived in this part of the cemetery, and they may be the oldest gravestones. Currently, the cemetery is dominated by burials from the 1st half of the 20th century and contemporary ones, mostly with inscriptions written in Cyrillic. The south-eastern part of the cemetery, where the burials are located, is overgrown with pine forest and deciduous bushes, the vacant area is overgrown with grass. The state of preservation of the cemetery is good. "It is worth noting the inscription from the tombstone of Shabanovich Mustafa Aljeevich, imam of the Ivyan Mosque: "MUSTAFA SZABANOVICH 1932 SZABANOVICH MUSTAWA ALJEJEJEJEVICH / IMAM OF THE IVYEVSKOY MIECZIETY / back: IN TIECZENIJE 55 LET / SZABANOVICH 25 II 1907 - 13.12.1996".

Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Wschodnie powiaty dawnego województwa białostockiego (obecnie na terenie Białorusi), Warszawa 2007.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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