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Dolhinovo cemetery

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Dolhinovo cemetery

1 The church cemetery is located next to the St. Stanislaus Church of 1853. The cemetery was established in the early 1930s. The rectangular-plan cemetery covers an area of 0.7 hectares and is fenced with a mesh fence. On an east-west axis, a pathway runs in front of the establishment, dividing it into two parts. Graves from the first half of the 20th century predominate. The oldest preserved tombstone, from 1933, is that of Konstanty Szacki. It is a massive block, carved from a single piece of granite. The preserved inscription reads: / KONSTANTY SZACKI/ DOKTOR MED. / 1893-1933/ TO THE MEMORY OF THE BEST/ WIFE AND SON/.
The old Catholic cemetery, established in the 2nd half of the 19th century, is located approx. 400 m of the church and 60 m from the urban development. The cemetery, rectangular in plan, is situated on a slight hill, occupies an area of 0.25 ha and is fenced with a metal mesh with a metal entrance gate, in the south-west corner. The cemetery does not have a division into alleys and plots. The foundation was closed in 1935, due to the lack of space for new burial sites. Due to numerous devastations, few gravestones remain in the cemetery today. The oldest graves are located in the eastern part of the cemetery. The oldest gravestone, a granite cuboid from 1888, is that of Jan Zahorski. The preserved inscription reads: / D. O. M. JANA/ ZAHORSKI/ DIED IN THE YEAR 1888/ APRIL 27 DN./ AGED 75/ ERECTED THIS MONUMENT BY/ HIS SON WITH A REQUEST FOR A SIGH TO GOD/.
Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).
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. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Salomea Grabowska
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