Kraisk. The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

   A stone Orthodox church of St. Nicholas has been built in the center of the village of Kraisk, Logoisk district. Kraisk was first mentioned in historical sources during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th century.

        In 1523, the town belongs to the Zenovich family. In the same year, Yuri Zenovich's children, sons Nikolai, Yuri and Mikhail, argued over the property of the village of Kraisk. In 1526, they recorded a tithe of their income to a Catholic church in the town of Smorgon. Kraisk was a part of the Minsk district of the Minsk Voivodeship.

       In 1590, there were 22 houses, a mill and a church in Kreysk. At that time, the estate and the town were already the property of Yuri Nosilovsky, who held the position of governor of Vitebsk. His wife, Jadwiga Nosilowska, gave the place to her son, Jan Ostik. The next owners of Kraisk were Ptashinsky, Kamensky and Tyshkevich. At the beginning of the 18th century, a monastery was operating in Kraisk.

            In 1745, a church named St. Nicholas was mentioned in documents. The temple, worst of all, belonged to Uniate believers.

          After the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1793, the town passed to the Russian Empire and was part of the Vilno province.

        In 1874, a stone Orthodox church was erected in the center of the village. The church was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas.

           During the Great Patriotic War, the temple was burned down by the Nazi invaders. After the war, the building was renovated and adapted as a stable. In 1966, a local club started operating in the temple.

          The building was handed over to Orthodox believers only in 2000. The monument was erected in the eclectic style according to a standard design. The building consists of four main parts: a vestibule, a refectory, a prayer hall and an apse.