Berezhnoye. The Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.

In the Stolin district, on the way from Stolin to David–Gorodok, there is a small ancient town of Berezhnoye. Historical sources first recall a place in 1508 called Bereznoye.

Nearby is the Staro Berezhnoye estate, which for several centuries has been the ancestral home of the famous Olesha family, from where the famous Soviet writer Yuri Olesha, the author of the fairy tale 'Three fat men."

There was an ancient 18th-century temple in Berezhnoye, on the foundation of which the wooden church of Paraskeva Pyantitsa was built in 1884 during the time of the Russian Empire. An architectural monument of national significance was erected in the very center of the town according to the traditions of Polesie folk architecture.

At the turn of the century, the temple building was rebuilt. During the time of the Polish state, in 1935-1936, a bell tower was added to the church. And after the Great Patriotic War, on the initiative of Elder Ignatiy Tsarik and priest Yakov Zalutsky, the right side chapel was added in 1946-1947.

In 1961, the shrine was closed and its property looted. The building was equipped with a village museum, which operated until 1987. At the request of the faithful, the church was returned to Orthodox parishioners in 1988 and repairs were carried out. Divine services resumed in 1989 after the church was consecrated by Archpriest Evgeny Minkevich.

The church consists of four main parts: a vestibule with a bell tower, a refectory, a prayer hall and an apse. A new gate and a stone fence have been erected in front of the church.