The St. Vladimir's Orthodox Church is a monument of retrospective Russian architecture.

The temple was erected on December 29, 1896 and was supposed to serve an educational function. Therefore, part of the church building was adapted for studies. On August 31, 1903, the building of the parish school at the church was consecrated.

During the First World War, all the valuables and even the iconostasis were removed from the St. Vladimir's Orthodox Church. In the 1920s and 1930s, when Western Belarus was a part of Poland, the classrooms were removed from the church. During the BSSR period, in the mid 1960s, the St. Vladimir's Orthodox Church was practically destroyed. The territory of the church began to shrink and build up. Workshops of a glass and a cardan shaft factory began to appear near the church building. A road embankment was built near the temple. To protect the church, believers turned to the Soviet and party authorities, even to the Central Committee of the CPSU, and the applications gave a positive result.

In independent Belarus, the church was returned to believers. In 2010, bells appeared in St. Vladimir's Orthodox Church.

Publication date: 19.08.2020.

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