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Plungė Deanery

Platelių Šv. apaštalų Petro ir Pauliaus bažnyčia

Built 1744 Age 282 yr Coord. 56.0406, 21.8161
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About the Church

The Platelių Church of Sts Peter and Paul the Apostles is a wooden church, built in 1744. It is one of the oldest in Lithuania and is adorned with 18th-century paintings, liturgical vestments and fittings. The church's interior is adorned with a high altar and four side altars of Baroque composition, and in the left-hand chapel stands a Rococo-style baptismal font with a cover, in which holy water and baptismal oils are kept. Above it hangs a large painting of St John the Baptist. In the churchyard of the church is buried Marie Choiseul-Gouffier, one of the last owners of the Plateliai manor, and her brother Gabrielis Choiseul-Gouffier. The church stands in the small town of Plateliai, next to the park of the Plateliai manor.

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