Sakovshchina. The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah.

If you drive from Volozhin to the town of Vishnevo, you will arrive at the reservoir on the West Berezina River. Once you pass the dam, then pay attention from the right, there is an equipped sandy beach. You can stop, the miser can rest and drive on. 

There is a wooden Orthodox church of the 19th century in the village of Sakovshchyna. To get to it, once you pass the dam and the beach, then the first street turns left and after 500 meters there will be local cemeteries in a Pine Forest.

The first Orthodox church was mentioned in Sakovshchina in the 17th century. Then it passed to the Uniate believers. There is a cemetery in the place where St. Elijah's Church is now, which has been known here since the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Around 1760, a wooden church was built in this cemetery at the expense of a local parishioner.

At the request of the peasants of nearby villages, an order of the Lithuanian Ecclesiastical Consistory was issued in 1875 with permission for a new church in the cemetery, which was built at the expense of parishioners of local villages.

After the Great Patriotic War, the church was closed in the 1960s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the temple was returned to the faithful and the renovation of the building began. The ancient bells in the church have been preserved to our time.

The building was built of wooden beams in the tradition of folk wooden architecture. It consists of three parts: a vestibule with a bell tower, a prayer hall and a pentagonal apse