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Church of St Theresa

Just north of the Gate of Dawn (indeed serving as the entrance to get up to the gate's Virgin Mary icon) is a Roman Catholic church popular with worshippers also outside mass, completed in 1650.

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Gate of Dawn
Aušros vartai
The last survivor of the walled city's nine gates, various called Medininkai Gate as the street led south to that village, Sharp Gate, and now Gate of Dawn. It's straddled by a chapel with a large icon of the Virgin Mary, painted in the 1620s, which has become a pilgrimage destination. Mass is held daily in Lithuanian and Polish. Enter the chapel via the Church of St Theresa, just follow the head-scarves. When the chapel windows are opened, you see the icon from the street below, and she can see you and your sins. The alley through the gate is pedestrianised and open 24 hours: south you emerge blinking into a modern world of traffic.
Chapel daily 07:00-19:00
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Holy Trinity Church
Part of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic monastery, and mostly built in the early 17th century.
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Medininkai
Lithuanian food near Gate of Dawn, it got good reviews to 2022 but now feels tourist-trappy.
Sun-Wed 11:00-22:00, Thu-Sat 11:00-23:00
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Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit
Re-built in 1753 in Baroque / Rococo. It's affiliated to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit and the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalen, with services in Russian.