Mestkovichi. The Church of the Holy Trinity.

The ancient settlement of Mestkovichi was first mentioned in the XV century as a land possession of a certain kind of Syropyats. In the first half of the XV century, the estate belonged to the Pinsk nobleman Martin Schirme. Since the middle of the XVI century, the Mestkovichi have been in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as part of the Pinsk district of the Berestey voivodeship. After the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire. By this time, there was a Uniate church in Mestkovichi, in 1795, the parishioners of which were transferred from the union to Orthodoxy. It is known that in 1827 this church burned down.

The Orthodox community could not exist for a long time without a parish church and, as far as possible, raised funds for the construction of a new church. Then the landowner Anthony Mikhailovsky helped with the construction of the temple. We were also very lucky with the material for the future temple — at that time an old wooden church was dismantled in Pinsk to build a new temple there, and the old logs were signed off for sale. Upon learning about this, the villagers purchased the dismantled temple and melted it down the Pripyat River to their village, where they reassembled it at the former church site. After standing for about 45 years, this temple became very dilapidated (perhaps it burned down), which contributed to the construction of a new church. And already in 1875, at the expense of local residents, a new temple in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity was built and consecrated. This church has survived to the present day.

The temple in the plan is a four-log cross-domed building. From the west, to the main volume, above the narthex, an octagonal, elegant bell tower on a quadrangular porch pointed its sharp spire into the sky. The octagonal light drum on the middle cross is covered with a helmet-shaped dome. The same dome with a spire covers the octagonal tier of the bell tower. The facades of the temple are saturated with wooden carved decor in the form of brackets and crackers of cornices, valances, platbands, pilasters at the corners, decorative crosses decorating the blue walls of the temple. All the details are painted white and look clearly against the blue background of the church walls. The walls are horizontally boarded and decorated with large flat pilasters at the corners. The forms and techniques of classicism and retrospective style are closely intertwined in the appearance of the temple.

During the First World War, the local residents found themselves on the front line, as recalled by a powerful pillbox right behind the church fence. Almost a hundred years ago, he kept an eye on the intersection of five Polesie roads that converged under the walls of the temple.