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    Thursday, February 26, 2009

    Vilnius, Lithuania

    Postcrossing postcard #16
    This is St. Apostles Pilypas and Jokubas' Church. It was built is 1690-1727 and is an architectural monument in Baroque. The first wooden church and a cloister were built in 1642. St. Jokubas Hospital was established in a part of the stone cloister in 1799. It was closed by the Soviet power in 1948 and reconsecrated in 1992. The cloister was given over to the Dominicans.

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