The St. Elijah Church is an Old Believers church, a monument of Belarusian wooden architecture of the second half of the 18th century.

The St. Elijah Church is located at the intersection of Kamisarava Vulica and Iĺinski Spusk on the Sož bank. It was built in the second half of the 18th century and consecrated in 1794. There was an Old Believers Spaski Monastery under the temple. In the middle of the 19th century, 23 nuns lived in the monastery. The temple and the monastery were in the possession of the Čartaryjskis princes. Attempts to close the church were made by the Russian authorities in the 19th century and by the Soviet authorities in the 20th century. In 1937, the church was closed and transferred to a knitting factory. The temple was reopened in 1941, with the beginning of the Nazi occupation. In the postwar period, it continued its work.

The three-part composition of the temple consists of square babiniec frames, a prayer hall and a pentagonal apse with a side sacristy. On the main facade, a two-tiered bell tower covered with a hemispherical dome rises. A central high frame is completed with a two-tiered light octagon with a faceted dome. Horizontally clad facades are cut through with small rectangular window apertures.

Publication date: 05.01.2022.

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