25 December 2002
Brest catholic church gets pipe organ

 A pipe organ has been installed at the Holy Cross Exaltation Church in Brest offering the local Roman Catholic believers the first opportunity in decades to celebrate Christmas to organ music.
The church used to have an organ before, but it was removed after the Soviet authorities turned the building over to the Local Studies Museum, Bishop Kazimierz Wielikosielec told BelaPAN.
Although the church reopened a decade ago, it could not find an organ at an affordable price until recently. Having learned accidentally that a church near Munich planned to replace its instrument, the bishop asked it to hand over the old organ to Brest.
Two Minsk-based organists visited Germany to examine the instrument's condition. The organ was dismantled, repaired and installed at the Brest church. Organists from Minsk and Grodno have already played it. There is no organist in Brest for the time being.