Kačergiskė Church of St. John the Baptist

The first chapel in the village of Kačergiškė was built in 1748, and it was rebuilt in 1783. The house of worship was wooden, and its condition deteriorated over time, until it became unused and abandoned after World War II.

In 1956–1961, Jonas Balčiūnas served as a priest at the St. John the Baptist Church in Kačergiškė. In 1989, on the initiative of parishioners and priest Edmundas Paulionis, renovation work was undertaken on the church. Later, after assessing its condition, it was decided to dismantle it and rebuild it. The reconstruction work, led by pastor Kęstutis Ralis, was completed in 1993.

Kačergiškės St. John the Baptist Church belongs to the Naujasis Daugėliškis parish. It is a small, modest building, close to folk architecture. A rectangular–plan church with a three-wall apse and two low, single-story sacristies. The church is built on a high stone and brick plinth, so wide concrete stairs lead to it. In the churchyard, a square-plan two-tier bell tower with a pyramidal tin roof crowned with a cross was built on a high stone and brick foundation. The churchyard of Kačergiškės church is surrounded by a wooden plank fence with metal gates. The churchyard is decorated with a sculpture of „Jesus' Ascension to Heaven“. The author of the first sculpture is Teofilis Patiejūnas (the sculpture stood from 1995 to 2021).

Since October 2021, a new sculpture has been erected at the initiative of the Šiūlėnai village community (author Vladas Sviridovas). A sculpture commemorating the events of the 1831 uprising was erected next to the church in 2011 (author T. Patiejūnas).

Information updated 2025-12-15