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Motol. Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church.

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Church

Belarus, Brest region, Ivanovo district, agro-town Motol, Lenin square, 1B

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The Transfiguration Church, located in the village of Motol, is an outstanding monument of the retrospective Russian style. The temple was built in 1888 from brick, and the church was designed in 1867 by architect M. Bartoshevsky.

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Historical

Architectural monument

Architectural monument

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Ольга Ерёменко

11.03.2025

The Transfiguration Church in the village of Motol is an architectural monument of the retrospective Russian style.

The village of Motol has been known since 1422. It celebrated its 600th anniversary in 2022. Motol is located in the center of Polesie, in the north of the Zagorodye plain. On the outskirts of the village flows the Yaselda River, which flows into Lake Motolskoe, connected to the Motol reservoir. Today, about 4,000 people live in the village.


The Transfiguration Church was built on the site of a wooden Uniate church of the 18th century, which, according to some sources, existed on this site as early as 1555. The old church was destroyed in a terrible fire that damaged half of Motol. After that, local residents began raising funds for the construction of a new stone temple.


The architectural plan of the church includes a three-tiered bell tower, a refectory, a main cubic temple and a pentagonal apse. The bulbous heads of the bell tower and the five-domed four-pitched roof of the main volume stand out in the silhouette of the building.


Inside the church there are icons from the 18th and 19th centuries, among which are "The Transfiguration", "The Holy Family", "Christ in the Desert", "Saint Theodosius", "St. Pantokrator the Savior", "Seraphim of Serov", "Mother of God's Pardon" (1808) and others.


The Transfiguration Church is an ornament of the village and travel companies are happy to include them in their weekend tours and religious tours in Belarus.

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