Peter and Paul Church (Nemajūnai)

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Peter and Paul Church in Nemajūnai

The Peter and Paul Church Nemajūnai is a Catholic neo-Gothic church in Nemajūnai in which birštonas municipality , 6 km southeast of Birštonas , in the deanery Stakliškės ( Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaišiadorys ) in Lithuania .

history

In 1786 the first wooden church was built by Kristina Kačanauskienė and a parish was founded. In the 18th century there was a community school. In 1858 a new project of the wooden church and in 1862 that of a solid structure were confirmed. Pastor Anzelmas Nonevičius built a new wooden church in 1877 based on the project by Tomas Tišeckis, completed in 1861 and confirmed in 1876 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 33 ′ 34.7 "  N , 24 ° 4 ′ 34"  E