Šaravai

Šaravai (formerly Russian: Шаравы, Polish: Szarawy)[1] is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania.

[2] It is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Skaistgiriai, by the Aluona river, surrounded by the Pernarava-Šaravai Forest.

There are wooden Catholic church of Jesus Heart (built in 1933), burial place of the January Uprising victims.

During the January Uprising insurgents used to gather under the Šaravai Oak Tree where they attended to the Mass.

Conversely to most of Kaunas-Kėdainiai region (known as the Liauda) Šaravai was not polonized at the end of the 19th century.