The text describes a church in the town of Sarya in Vitebsk province, made of red brick, with two large towers and fourteen small ones. The church was founded by Ignacy Lopacinski in 1850 and completed in 1857 (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1867, T:15, p. 280, after: University of Lodz Digital Library).

A modernised reading of the text

Sarya Church.

The church in question is not a historical monument of any kind, but merely a family heirloom, but with its beauty of form and purity of architectural lines it attracts the eyes of experts. Founded by Ignacy Lopacinski in 1850 on his estate in Sarya, Vitebsk province, in the district of Druskininkai, Osiecka parish, it stands opposite the grave of the founder's mother, wife and son.

It is made of red bricks, 50 feet high from the foundations to the cornices, with two taller turrets reaching a height of 100 feet to the cross, and fourteen smaller ones, made of red bricks on iron rods, extend over a flat roof covered with sheet metal. From one turret to the other, a balustrade, also of red brick, like elaborate lace, rises above the parapet. Gothic ornaments, rosettes, consoles, etc., all of burnt clay. Inside, the church is about 70 feet long, 28 wide.

The Gothic vault, whose arches gracefully intersect, is also supported by Gothic pilasters. In the main, and only altar, is a beautiful stone statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, placed in a frame and lit from above by a hidden window. The altar itself, a masterpiece of carpentry, is made in the shape of a Gothic sarcophagus from oak. On top of it rises a kind of Gothic temple made of the same tree - a ciborium. The grilles, pulpit, choir, etc., all in the purest Gothic style, create a view full of harmony.

Outside, the churchyard is enclosed on three sides by a wall, also Gothic, and in front by wrought-iron railings. This church, with the Supreme permission, was completed in 1857 and consecrated in June. That year, in July, the late Václav Zilinsky, metropolitan of all the Roman Catholic churches in Russia, visited the church, and after celebrating a pontifical mass for two days, confirmed the crowds of people.