Kačergiskė Church of St. John the Baptist

The first chapel in the village of Kačergiškė was built in 1748. In 1783 it was rebuilt. The chapel was made of wood, and its condition became worse over time until it became unused and abandoned after World War II. 1956-1961 priest of  Kačergiškė St. John the Baptist church was Jonas Balčiūnas. In 1989 on the initiative of the parishioners and priest Edmundas Paulionis, the church's repair work was undertaken. Later, after evaluating the condition, it was decided to dismantle and rebuild it. The restoration work was completed in 1993 under the leadership of pastor Kęstutis Ralys. Kačergiškė St. John the Baptist church belongs to the parish of Naujasis Daugėliškis. It is a small, modest building, close to folk architecture. The church has a rectangular plan with a three-walled apse and two low, one-story sacristies. The church is built on a high plinth of stone and brick masonry, so a wide concrete staircase leads to it. In the churchyard, a square-plan, two-bay bell tower with a pyramidal tin roof crowned by a cross is built on a high foundation of stone and brick masonry. The yard of the Kačergiškė church is surrounded by a fence of wooden boards with metal gates. The churchyard is decorated with the "Jesus Ascension" sculpture. The author of the first sculpture is Teofilis Patiejūnas (the sculpture stood between 1995 and 2021). From 2021 on the initiative of the Šiūlėnai village community in October, a new sculpture was built (by Vladas Sviridovas). Next to the church in 2011 a sculpture was built to remember the events of the 1831 uprising (author T. Patiejūnas).