Pasaulietinė valdžia ir Lietuvos bažnyčių dailė XX amžiaus I pusėje

ENIn the life of Lithuanian Church, the first half of the 20th century (approximately 1896-1944) may be considered as a period of revival between the two - tsarist and Soviet - occupations. [...] In the first half of the 20th century, church decoration was left to the competence of the parish and the dean. The parish committees, on exhausting their forces and means on construction works, often lacked means for church decoration; rather often than not it took several decades to arrange completely a church after its construction. The main goal of church builders at that period was to erect the building of a church and to start holding services in it. Although rather modest, state subsidies or timely loans still maintained alive the process of church building and renovation. It is possible that upon liquidating the debts, sometimes enormous, for church construction works a new stage in the existence of Catholic shrines - from building to decoration - could be opened. The Lithuanian state used two main ways to support the construction and renovation of churches, - either by subsidies or by assisting with building timber. The priority in getting the state's support was given to the churches that met the state requirements such as liquidation of the consequences of war, propagation of Lithuanianism (and Catholicism) or representation of the state.

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