The Holy Nativity of the Mother of God Yurovichi Monastery is a monastery of the Turov diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, Belarusian Exarchate), in the village of Yurovichi (Kalinkovichi district, Gomel region).

The Holy Nativity of the
Mother of God Yurovichi Monastery

In the second half of the 17th century, representatives of the Catholic order of the Jesuits settled here, whose activities are associated with the appearance in Yurovichi of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God and the construction of a temple complex here. 

This icon, executed in the ecclesiastical style of the Hodegetria Mother of God, according to the conclusion of an expert commission of art historians, was probably painted at the beginning of the 17th century on the territory of the Commonwealth, in its

Holy Trinity Church is the temple of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Located in the village of Bolshaya Svorotva, Baranovichi District, Brest Region, Belarus.

Holy Trinity Church, Bolshaya Svorotva.

From the history of the Holy Trinity Church

From the descriptions of churches and parishes of the Minsk diocese in 1879, the stone Trinity Church is mentioned. The temple was built in the shape of a regular triangle with one blind dome. In addition to the iconostasis, the temple had four artistic paintings of the icon of the Holy Evangelists. Holy Trinity Church is the temple of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

From Rechitsa to Mozyr and back to Rechitsa city.

    By car from Rechitsa to Mozyr and back to Rechitsa, through the town of Khoiniki, Yurovichi. Viewing local attractions.

The Vileyka city in Belarus.

Holy Cross Exaltation Church  Vileyka city in Belarus.

It is believed that Vileyka appeared about five centuries ago, but archaeological finds indicate that people founded a permanent settlement near the current borders of Vileyka much earlier than this date. 

The first people in the territory of the modern Vileika region appeared around the 9th millennium BC. Near the villages of Sosenka and Ostashkovo, sites of ancient people and flint tools were found, according to which the age of the sites found dates back to 7-5 millennia BC. 

Later archaeological sites dating back to the Neolithic (4-2 millennium BC) were discovered near the villages of Kameno, Kastika, Kurenets, Naroch, Rabun and some others.

Catholic church of Saints Peter and Paul in Boruny, Belarus.

Catholic church of Saints Peter and Paul in Boruny, Belarus.

Church of St. Peter and Paul 1700-07, 1747-57 In its walls, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of the Borunsky is still abiding. 

At the end of the seventeenth century, this image belonged to Nikolai Peslyak, who received it as a gift from his relative, rector of the Polatsk Uniate monastery, and healed from blindness with his help.

Zhirovsky Orthodox Monastery in Belarus

Zhirovichi monastery

The national treasure of Belarus, a place of amazing history and spiritual strength, a monastery where the legendary shrine - the Zhirovichi Icon of the Mother of God has been kept for many centuries ... 

The Holy Assumption Zhirovichi Stauropegic Monastery was founded in 1520, and has not been closed for centuries nowadays is the largest Orthodox center of the country.

Kolozha Church in Grodno

Kolozha Church, in Grodno, Belarus

The St. Boris and Gleb Kolozha Church is the architectural pearl of ancient Grodno, a unique monument of ancient Orthodox architecture of the 12th century in Belarus and throughout Eastern Europe.

Built-in the north-west of Ancient Russia, the Kolozha Church is not like any temple in the world. The Orthodox shrine, the history of which dates back nine centuries, is included in the preliminary list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.