Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

Vilnius


Dubbed ‘Sands Church’ after the quarter in which it stands, this 15th-century Franciscan church has a varied history – it was a hospital for the French army in 1812 and housed the state archives from 1864 to 1934 and 1949 to 1989. Returned to the Franciscans in 1998, it has been the object of years of painstaking restorations.


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