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50 Litų Vilnius Cathedral
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos Bankas) |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#134 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | LIETUVA LMK 50 LITŲ |
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Vilnius Cathedral has an unusually complicated ecclesiastical history for a building that looks, on the outside, almost entirely neoclassical. The site hosted a pagan temple before the first wooden Christian church was raised there in 1387, following Lithuania's late conversion — the last major pagan state in Europe to Christianize. The cathedral was repeatedly rebuilt, burned, and reconsecrated over four centuries before Johann Christoph Glaubitz and later Laurynas Stuoka-Gucevičius transformed it into its current form in the late 18th century.
Soviet authorities closed the cathedral in 1950 and repurposed it as an art gallery for nearly four decades.