Tytuvėnai Blessed Virgin Mary's Church and Bernardine monastery

Tytuvėnai Blessed Virgin Mary church, consecrated in 1635. Church is with a very long and a large central nave height and width of the presbytery, ending with a three-sided apse. Church architecture evident in the Gothic, Mannerist and Baroque style elements. Gothic influence can be seen from plaster red brick exterior masonry, reinforced boulders inserts, high arch presbytery windows, pointed triumphal arch that separates the presbytery from the nave, the nave, covering cross-arches, slightly tapered lintel arches, ornate starry chancel arches, high roof of the church. Renaissance influence is apparent in the side of the church facades: semi-circular windows, wall Doric pilasters between the windows of the church, red brick walls providing decorative plaster and paint in white collars, door portals, cornices, friezes. Church walls - thick. This is typical of the local architecture Lithuania. On the wall thickness of the sacred buildings were often can be used for defense. It remained rare original high church roof construction - complex but robust pillars, cross and diagonal supports outrigger system. Today, we see in 1735 launched a major two-tower church facade with a porch in the late Baroque style typical forms. Opening the door of the church access to the highly ornate interior of the temple. Presbytery area shrines end walls, the walls along the arches and pillar filler rich and sophisticated forms nine Rococo altar pulpit and baptistery ensemble.