The Holy Assumption Cathedral in Rečyca is an Orthodox temple of the nineteenth century. It was built in Russian Revival style.

In times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania a wooden Holy Trinity church belonged to Greek Catholics. In the first third of the nineteenth century the temple was handed over Orthodox believers. The building of the future Holy Assumption temple began in eighteen forty-two. But in a year a belfry near it unexpectedly fell in and damaged the main building of the Cathedral. The temple was keeping in the damaged state more than twenty years. Only in eighteen sixty-four the building was renewed. The Holy Trinity temple subsisted as a religious building only sixty-two years. Under the antireligious politics of the Soviet government the temple was changed into a Palace of Culture. But in thirty years it disused and the building fell into decay. A new life of the Holy Assumption Cathedral began only in two thousand and three when divine services started being held in it again.

Publication date: 13.06.2017.

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