St. Michael Church is an Orthodox church, transported from the Vylieva village, Dobruš District. It acts as a temple-monument to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. The only church in Belarus, transported from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

The first Vylieva church, known since 1763, was a Uniate one. In 1788, it belonged to the Homieĺ parish. According to historical documents, in 1838, the building was in poor condition. After the liquidation of the Uniate Church in the Russian Empire in 1839 and the transfer of believers and priests to Orthodoxy, funds for the construction of a new church in Vylieva were received. The construction was completed in 1846, and in 1847, the new church was consecrated. Over time, the temple fell into disrepair, and on December 27, 1909, a new wooden temple building was consecrated.

In the 1930s, as a result of the anti-religious policy of the Soviet government, the church was closed. During the Nazi occupation, the Vylieva temple reopened and was no longer closed after the war.

After the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, the Vylieva village turned out to be in a contaminated zone, the residents were evicted and the church stopped working. On June 6, 2000, a decision to move the church from the Vylieva village to Homieĺ was made. At the new location, the temple was consecrated by Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Sluck on April 26, 2006, on the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. In 2007, St. Michael Church was included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values ​​of the Republic of Belarus.

Publication date: 05.01.2022.

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