Privalki. The Church of Judas Thaddeus.

In the town of Privalki, Grodno region, there is a wooden Catholic church in honor of Judas Thaddeus. The first Catholic chapel in the village has been known since the 17th century, since the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

A church was built on the site of the chapel with the money of King Sigismund III Vasa in 1609. The temple was consecrated in honor of St. Judas Thaddeus. Initially, the church was considered a branch of another church, and then it was enrolled by the king at the request of Bishop Benedict Voina of Vilna, to the parish church.

The Oginsky magnates were the owners of the town in the 18th century. Prince František Xavier Oginski spent money on the renovation of the church in 1777. The church had a rectangular shape with two sacristy and a triangular apse. The main facade was decorated with two four-pointed bell towers. The temple was covered with a gable roof made of wood chips.

During the time of the Russian Empire, after the suppression of the anti-Russian uprising in the 19th century, the church was handed over to the Orthodox. Local Catholics are attached to the parish in the town of Gozha. For some time the temple stood abandoned, and in 1913 it was rebuilt as a church. During the First World War, the old building burned down.

In 1919, Catholic believers built a new wooden church. The church was built in the Neo-Gothic style, and was consecrated in the summer of 1920 by Father Francis Bernat in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary Shkaplernaya and Saints Simeon and Thaddeus.

During the war, the Nazis arrested the priest, and the parish was left without a priest. After the war, in 1962, the Soviet authorities closed the church.

In 1990, the shrine was returned to the faithful.