Pochapovo. St. Nicholas Chapel.
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Belarus, Brest region, Baranovichi district, Pochapovo.
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03.02.2025
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There is a place called Pochapovo in the Baranovichi district. There are two Orthodox churches in this place: the stone Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the wooden chapel church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the local cemetery.
St. Nicholas Church was built in the 19th century in the traditions of folk wooden architecture and consists of three main architectural parts. There is an iconostasis in the interior. The church is active.
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Architectural monument
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Latitude: 53.36161865
Longitude: 25.81292363
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1Алег Дзьячкоу
03.02.2025
Pochapovo. St. Nicholas Chapel.
In the village of Pochapovo, a wooden St. Nicholas Church was built at the local cemetery.
The place was first mentioned in historical sources in the 15th century during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The city belonged to the Grand Duke Vytautas.
In the 16th century, the estate was owned by John Kmita Stratevich, and then by Mikhail Bogushevich Pochapaevsky. During the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century, it belonged to Korsak, who financed the wooden church in 1770. The temple, worst of all, belonged first to Uniate believers and was transferred to the Orthodox only in the 19th century during the time of the Russian Empire. In 1867, the stone Church of the Intercession was erected on the site of the wooden church.
In the 19th century, a wooden chapel was created at the local cemetery, which was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas. The temple was assigned to the Church of the Intercession. During the Great Patriotic War, the Church of the Intercession was burned down and for a long time the St. Nicholas Church was a parish church.
The monument was erected in the traditions of folk wooden architecture. The building is one-block, has a rectangle in plan. It consists of three main parts: the vestibule, the prayer hall and the apse. There is an iconostasis in the interior.
There are also two monuments in the village dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War: a monument on the mass grave of the partisans and an obelisk in honor of the fallen countrymen.
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