Convent of Saint Nicholas
1669–1672 Baroque church with an original seventeenth-century carved iconostasis
Set in the quiet Dnieper floodplain garden below the upper city.
Mogilev, Belarus
Ideal: 1 dayBest: May–SepPrice: Moderate
In 60 seconds
Mogilev in 60 seconds
Standing on the upper Dnieper in eastern Belarus, Mogilev looks across the wide river floodplain from the terrace of its reconstructed 1679 Town Hall. Below the bluff in the Podnikolye river meadow rises the seventeenth-century Convent of Saint Nicholas, famed for its four-tiered gilded wooden iconostasis carved in the Mogilev Baroque school, while pedestrian Leninskaya Street preserves late nineteenth-century brick facades.
Best for
- History
- Architecture
- Baroque
- River
Known for
- Convent of Saint Nicholas
- Mogilev Town Hall & Soviet Square
- Leninskaya Street & Starry Square
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Must experience
The things that would make the trip incomplete without them.
Mogilev Town Hall & Soviet Square
Reconstructed 1679 octagonal municipal tower with a mechanical trumpeter clock
Overlooks the Dnieper valley from the historical Governor's Square.
Leninskaya Street & Starry Square
Pedestrian main street lined with nineteenth-century merchant houses and the 1888 Drama Theatre
Forms the walkable spine of old Mogilev.
Beyond the obvious
Hidden gems
Less obvious, rarely queued for, and usually the part people remember.
Pavel Maslenikov Regional Art Museum
1914 Neo-Russian and Art Nouveau bank building with ceramic friezes
Houses Belarusian painting and a reconstruction of the 1161 Cross of Saint Euphrosyne.