Church of the Blessed Sacrament | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
District | Old Town |
Leadership | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas |
Location | |
Location | Kaunas, Lithuania |
Geographic coordinates | 54°53′48.58″N 23°53′44.71″E / 54.8968278°N 23.8957528°E |
Architecture | |
Type | Church |
Style | Baroque |
Completed | 1690 |
Specifications | |
Dome(s) | 1 |
Materials | Masonry (brick) |
Church of the Blessed Sacrament or Corpus Christi Church ( Lithuanian: Kauno Švč. Sakramento bažnyčia or Kauno Dievo kūno bažnyčia) is a Roman Catholic church in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. [1] [2] [3] The church was damaged by the Napoleonic Army in 1812 and together with the Dominican Monastery was closed in 1845 by the order of Russian tsar Nicholas I of Russia, in 1865 it was converted into an Orthodox church. [4]