Building Name: | Church of the Blessed Sacrament |
Location: | Kaunas, Lithuania |
Geo: | 54.8968°N 23.8958°W |
Religious Affiliation: | Roman Catholic |
District: | Old Town |
Leadership: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas |
Architecture Type: | Church |
Architecture Style: | Baroque |
Year Completed: | 1690 |
Dome Quantity: | 1 |
Materials: | Masonry (brick) |
Church of the Blessed Sacrament or Corpus Christi Church (Lithuanian: Kauno Švč. Sakramento bažnyčia or Lithuanian: 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]