Vasilchitsy. Assumption Church.

In the Kopyl district in the town of Vasilchitsy there is an architectural monument, the wooden Orthodox Assumption Church. The temple is located in the very center of Vasilchitsy at the intersection of the central roads.

         At the beginning of the 19th century, the first church belonging to Uniate believers was known in the village. The temple was probably built during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After the prohibition of Uniatism in the Russian Empire in 1839, the church was handed over to Orthodox believers. The shrine was consecrated in honor of the Apostle John the Theologian.

        It is known from written sources that in 1864 there was a church in Vasilchitsy. The church was assigned to St. Nicholas Church in the nearby large town of Timkovichi. It is not known whether this was a new church or a former Uniate one.

       The Assumption Church was built in the second half of the 19th century during the time of the Russian Empire.  During the Soviet era, the shrine was closed in the 1930s. The building was adapted for a local club.

        During the Great Patriotic War, the church began to work again. The temple was closed again in 1969, and a granary was built here. Gradually, the monument fell into disrepair.

       In the late 1990s – the restoration of the shrine began. In 1999, the parish was officially registered. In the fall of 2004, the church was consecrated. Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, the patriotic Exarch of All Belarus, came to consecrate the church.

             Monument of folk wooden architecture. The building is built on a stone foundation. It consists of three main parts: the vestibule, the prayer hall and the apse. An octagonal bell tower is built over the vestibule. A small onion dome on an octagonal drum is erected above the main volume.