The Church of the Resurrection of Christ or Holy Resurrection Church is an Orthodox church, which was destroyed in 1936 and restored at the beginning of the 21st century. The church is located on the west side of Rynkavaja plošča. A monument of architecture of the Viĺna Baroque.

According to historical sources, a wooden Orthodox church existed on Rynkavaja plošča as early as 1558. It burned twice in 1708 and 1733. It consisted of three square frames: the main, the altar and the narthex with a tower above it, covered with separate hipped roofs with heads.

In 1772, on the site of a wooden church, next to the shopping malls, a stone Uniate church was built in the late "Viĺna" Baroque style with the money of the Viciebsk merchant Mikalaj Smyk. The main facade of the church faced the square in the direction of Vićba. In 1834, the Uniate church was transferred to the Orthodox department. In 1841, the Polack diocesan architect drew up a project for its reconstruction in the post-classical style, which was not implemented. Only in the second half of the 19th century a fake pseudo-Russian ‘onion’ dome was erected. In 1913, the church was renovated.

During the Soviet period, the building of the Holy Resurrection Church existed until 1936, when it was blown up by order of the Soviet authorities. After the declaration of independence of the Republic of Belarus and the revival of socio-political and religious life, in 1992, it was decided to transfer the land plot where the church stood and its foundations were preserved to the Uniate parish for the design of the restoration of the Holy Resurrection Church. However, in 1996, this decision was revised and the land plot was transferred to the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 2001–2008, the restoration and reconstruction works were carried out in the Holy Resurrection Church. The church was restored in its original Baroque form. A single-nave church in the Viĺna Baroque style with a semicircular apse oriented to the north with sacristy on the sides, which gave the building a rectangular plan. The main facade is decorated with two three-storey elegant towers and has a complex wavy surface. The church is quite modest in size and consists of a single nave. This was probably due to the dense degree of development of Rynkavaja plošča. From the north, the church ends with a semicircular apse with a high figured Baroque pediment and two low sacristy on the sides. The walls were finished with flat pilasters and completed with profiled cornices, the through tiers of the towers and the pediment were decorated with stylized volutes. The towers were completed with figured domes.

Publication date: 12.02.2021.

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