Klyushchany. St. Ioahim 's Church.

There is a wooden Catholic church of St. Joachim in the Ostrovets district in the village of Klyushchany. The church was built during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1726 at the expense of J. Korsak. It was renovated during the Russian Empire in 1905.

For some time, Kazimir Svoyak (1890-1926), a poet and playwright, literary critic and publicist, served as the priest at the church. His real name is Konstantin Stopovich. He studied at the Vilno Catholic Theological Seminary.

In June 1915, the newspaper "Belarus" published a congratulation to Father Konstantin Stopovich from the parishioners of Klyushchany on the occasion of his first Mass at the local St. Joachim's Church.

Stopovich created a choir in Klyushchany, where girls and boys from different villages and towns sang: Kiselevo, Velikaya Kazanovschina, Budran, Pyatrashek and Treshchanov. Stopovich himself could play the violin and had a lyrical tenor voice. They learned religious and Belarusian folk songs together with the choir.: "Geese", "Krasnaya Kalinochka", "Nightingale" and "Green Oak".

The priest conducted the mass in the Belarusian language.

An illegal circle, the Union of Relatives, was created in Klyushchany for self-education based on Christian ethics.

Seven schools were established in the vicinity of the village with the help of Father Stopovich. Teacher training courses were opened, and textbooks were brought from Vilnius.

In 1916, Father Stopovich was transferred to another church in Bialystochyna for the Belarusization of the church.

Kazimir Svoyak died in 1926 from tuberculosis. He asked his friends and colleagues to bury him in Klyushchany. But the poet was buried in Vilnius at the Rosy cemetery.

In 1936, when the monument to him was unveiled in Vilnius, a large group of young people came from Klyushchany on foot for 80 kilometers.

The church was closed after the Great Patriotic War, and returned to the Catholic faithful in 1990. A few years ago, the temple was severely damaged during a fire. The temple is currently under restoration.

A stone fence with a gate made of brick and rubble stone has been erected around the temple.

A stone chapel from the 19th century and a park from the former manor house have been preserved near the church in the town of Shaikuny.