Bolshye Sehnovichi. The St. Nicholas the Wonderworker church

The St. Nicholas Church in the village of Bolshye Sehnovichi is recognized as a monument of wooden architecture of the Belarusian Polesie and is included in the list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus.

The temple is built of wooden beams. According to historical data, there used to be an old wooden church on this site, which has not survived to this day. The church's architecture combines traditional elements of 18th-century wooden architecture with eclectic motifs from the mid-19th and 20th centuries.

The main facade of the temple is decorated with a rectangular two-tiered bell tower, the second tier of which serves as a belfry. The modern St. Nicholas Church has an elongated rectangular shape, typical of wooden churches in the second half of the 19th century. The main volume of the temple is a rectangular log house covered with a high gable roof. The walls are smooth, without decoration.

On the west side, a square babynets adjoins the log cabin, above which stands a bell tower with a hipped roof and a dome. The roof of the temple is two—pitched, and above the altar, above which a small figured dome is installed, it is three-pitched. The walls are vertically lined with boards. The windows are arched with pointed decoration. Previously, they were decorated with stained glass windows with a pattern of bindings. However, in the 2000s, the old stained glass windows were replaced with double-glazed windows.

The first mention of the existence of this temple was recorded on December 18, 1727. Initially, it functioned as a Uniate church. The archival document indicates that the building was in poor condition, which forced parishioners to turn to other churches.

After the liquidation of Uniatism in 1839, the church passed under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox community. In 1857, it was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. In 1860, a partial restoration was carried out, during which two domes were installed.

In 1915, by order of the Russian command, church property, utensils, liturgical books and documentation were taken deep into the Russian Empire.

St. Nicholas Church has never stopped its activities.

In the post-war period, he continued to perform his function, but the management structure underwent changes. Church councils were organized in the parishes, endowed with a wide range of powers.

In June 1957, electric lighting was installed in the church, and the outdated roof was replaced. In the early 1980s, during a major renovation, it was replaced with a metal roof.

In 2009, the church underwent major repairs and landscaping of the surrounding area. The interior of the church has also been updated: a gilded iconostasis has been installed and new icons have been placed.

The church cemetery contains the graves of local clergy, as well as Catholic and Uniate cemeteries with the graves of the estate's owners.

Ancient fragments of murals have been preserved in the interior. The apse is decorated with a wooden iconostasis, on the reverse side of which is a tempera painting of the XVIII century "Saints".

The 18th century Nativity of John the Baptist icon, painted in oil on canvas by Jan Vishinsky, was kept in the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

The Kosciusko-Sehnovichi family estate was located in Bolshye Sehnovichi.

According to researchers, this village, and not Merechovshchina, is the birthplace of Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Local historians say that Kosciuszko's mother was a Uniate, so the baby was baptized in this church, which then belonged to the Uniates, and was named Andrei. Later, the church became Orthodox. The father, being a Catholic, conducted the re-baptism of his son in the Kossovo Church, where he was given the name Bonaventure Tadeusz.