Ikazn. The Church of the Body of God.

Ikazn was founded by Ivan (Jan) Sapieha in the early 16th century. The modern stone temple was preceded by a number of wooden ones. The first of them was erected on the initiative of the Grand Chancellor Lev Sapieha in 1593. The temple was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Jesuit Order. 

During the 17th and 18th centuries, wooden churches were burned down and rebuilt several times. The last time this happened was during the War of 1812. The church was rebuilt in 1814.

The rector of the Ikazn parish was Father Claudius Antonovich, and at his request in 1906 the parish received permission to erect a stone church, the construction of which lasted 6 years. The new church was built on the site of an old church dismantled at the end of the 19th century, where the famous sculptor and participant in the uprisings of Kastus Kalinovsky, Henry Dmokhovsky, was baptized. In 1912, the stone church was consecrated. The main building materials were a combination of harsh stone, red brick and limestone blocks.  

The building of the Church of the Body of God resembles the architecture of the castle: a three-nave basilica with two towers and a semicircular apse. The facade has a transept and low side sacristy. The towers have four tiers with a square cross-section, and the openings on them are cut in various shapes. The perimeter of the church is reinforced with buttresses, and high arched windows are cut through the walls. It is these two four-tiered towers with different shapes and styles of windows and the gable shield between them with a rose window typical of the neo-Romanesque style that makes the Church of the Body of God very impressive and majestic.

The interior of the temple is represented by three altars: two stone and one wooden. The towers are somewhat heavy and resemble a defensive structure. The walls are decorated with the so-called "Broslav mosaic" (patterns of crushed rubble stone on lime mortar). There is a massive fence around the church, also made of natural stone.

In the period from 1948 to 1990, the Church was closed, and the building was used as a granary and a warehouse for building materials. In 1990, the building was returned to the Catholic Church in poor condition. The rich interior of the temple was completely destroyed during the Soviet period.

At the moment, the church has been well restored and is functioning as a temple.

There is no general opinion on the history of the origin of the village's name. For some, it is associated with the legend of the evil and cruel pan, who executed his guilty peasants on the shore of the lake. From a scientific point of view, the territory of the village belonged to the Baltic tribes, and in Finnish "ikazn" means a window.

The monumental view of the church, its beautiful location on the shores of Lake Ikazn creates a very interesting and pleasant tourist atmosphere in the village. The Church of the Body of God is an architectural monument of the early 20th century, a historical and cultural value and an interesting landmark of Belarus.