Kraisk. The Church of St. Alexei.

      In the village of Kraisk, Logoisk district, a stone Orthodox church of St. Alexei was built at the local cemetery. During the time of the Russian Empire, the Orthodox priest Alexei Biryukovich built a stone church in honor of his patron saint Alexei with his own money. A. Biryukovich's father, the Orthodox priest Mikhail Georgievich Biryukovich, was buried next to the temple.

       In the summer of 1909, Priest A. Biryukovich died and was buried next to his father near the church of St. Alexei. After his death, his father's second cousin, Mikhail Pavlovich Biryukovich, became the rector of the temple.

        During the First World War, there was a front near the town of Kreisk. The church also suffered. After the revolution, the temple was heavily taxed, and in the 1930s the shrine was closed. The graves of the priests were robbed and destroyed at that time.

         During the Great Patriotic War, the church was opened. And after the war, in 1962, the church of St. Alexei was assigned to the temple in the town of Dolginovo. After a while, the church was closed again and a granary was built in the building.

       After the collapse of the USSR, the church was returned to Orthodox believers and major repairs were carried out in 1995. In the summer of 1995, the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Filaret.

      The church is built in an eclectic style. The building has the shape of a rectangle in the plan. The building consists of two main architectural parts: a vestibule and a prayer hall. An eight-by-four bell tower is built over the vestibule.