Belitsa. Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

The place was first mentioned in written sources in the 15th century during the time of King Kazimir Jagiellonchik. The settlement was the center of the Grand Duchy volost. In 1431-1500, a Catholic church was built.

In the 16th century, the Belitskaya volost was transferred to the maintenance of deputies who conducted judicial, administrative and economic management here. The first deputy was Prince Yuri Golshansky.

In 1506, Belitsa was plundered by the Crimean Tatars. Prince Yuri Ilyinich has been governor of Belitsa since 1507. Since 1528, the deputy was Prince Yuri Radziwill. In 1557, the place was mentioned in documents as the Radziwills' property.

Belitskaya volost was presented to Prince Nikolai Radziwill the Red by King and Grand Duke Sigismund August of Lithuania. Prince Radziwill organized a Calvinist parish and a school in the village, and built a residence on the banks of the Neman River.

The palace was built in the Renaissance style. Calvinist synods were held here.

According to documents from 1784, a Catholic church was operating in Belitsa. There was a manor of Prince King Stanislav Radziwill, who was governor of Vilno.

The place belonged to the Radziwills until 1832, and after Sofia Radziwill's death it passed to her husband Count Leon Wittgenstein. At that time, the Dominican monastery in the village was closed, and in 1838, the church that was attached to the monastery was closed. In 1839, a parish was established and the Church of the Holy Spirit was opened.

At the end of the 19th century, there were 883 inhabitants and 100 households in Belica, there was a church and a synagogue with a church, three taverns and a school. There were 4 fairs per year. There was also the estate of Princess Trubetskoy in the village.

On the outskirts of the village, a wooden Orthodox church was built at the local Orthodox cemetery, which was consecrated in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

The temple was built in the early 20th century during the time of the Polish state in the style of Belarusian folk wooden architecture. The church was built on the site of an ancient temple from the 16th century. After the war in Soviet times, the shrine was closed and handed over to believers again in 1990.