The text describes the Catholic cemetery on the so-called Golden Hill in Minsk, where there is a small brick chapel completed in 1864 according to a plan by Michal Siwicki and created from a bequest by the Leonovichs. The interior was funded by Col. Laskowicz, while the workmanship fell to a committee headed by Rev. Bishop Adam Wojtkiewicz. The article describes the interior of the chapel in detail (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1868, Series 2, T:1, p. 245, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text

The interior of the chapel on Zolota Gora, in the Gubernya Minsk.

In the Catholic cemetery, located on what is known as Zolota Gora in the governorate city of Minsk, rises a small brick chapel, in the pointed-arch style. This beautiful building, completed in 1864 according to a plan by St. Petersburg academician Michal Sivitsky, was financed by a bequest from the Leonovichs, who donated Rs. 10,000. 10,000; the internal decoration was paid for by Colonel Laskowicz.

The work was carried out by a separate committee under the leadership of Bishop Adam Wojtkiewicz, the diocesan shepherd, according to whose idea and direction the new church was built. The exterior is magnificent and well-applied to the locality, while the interior is in the same gothic style, but no less refined and careful. The arched vaulting, windows and altar ornaments form a charming whole.

The mensa of the main altar is supported by two angels, as are the two side altars, decorated with life-size plaster figures representing, on the right, the town's patron saints, St Roch, St Michael and St Gabriel, and on the left, the Lord Jesus at the pillar, with the same figures of the Virgin Mary and St Joseph. Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.

All the parts and details of the building, as well as the furnishings, ciborium, pulpit, confessionals, pews, etc., are strictly based on the most beautiful models of Gothicism, in which the builder showed a great deal of thorough knowledge and exquisite taste, confirming the praiseworthy opinion of him expressed more than once by Władysław Syrokomla, well-known in our literature.