A chapel with a burial vault in the Antazavė village cemetery in 1877. built on the initiative of Bolesław Kontrim (?–1910). It was named St. On behalf of Anton. B. Kontrim came from the neighboring village of Šniukšti. He had to serve in the highest office of forest management of tsarist Russia, later he returned to his hometown Shniukshti. In the basement of the chapel after his death in 1910. its builder B. Kontrimas was buried. Later, other relatives of B. Kontrim were buried in the chapel: his mother, stepdaughter Elžbieta Kontrimaitė-Pupeikienė (died in 1945), her husband Vincas Pupeikis (died in 1944).
During the First World War, the Antazavė church was occupied and used for the needs of the German army - a hospital was located there. 1914-1918 services were held not in the church, but in the cemetery chapel. After World War II, the chapel was ransacked and looted. In search of access to the burial vault, the door and floor were broken. The memories of contemporaries are contradictory: supposedly the thieves found the entrance and robbed the coffins of the dead, according to others, they did not find the entrance.
During the Soviet era, the chapel was closed. Some of the valuable paintings, sculptures, organ, crosses and other liturgical items were transferred from it to the Church of Divine Providence. St. was left in the altar. Anton's painting, which was later stolen. in 1989 the chapel has been restored.
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