Volovel. St. George's Church.

In Belarus, Western Polesie is known for its wooden temples. There is an ancient Christian shrine in almost every village here. In the town of Volovel, Drogichinsky district, a unique two-towered temple of the 18th century in the Baroque style has been preserved to our time.

The church was built in 1776, and according to some historical sources in 1766. The temple belonged to the Uniates. In those days, under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the lands of Belarus, by the 18th century, most of the population belonged confessionally to the Uniates, who were subordinate to the Pope. The church was built at the same time along with the bell tower.

After the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1775, the Brest region became part of the Russian Empire and for the first time the church worked as a Uniate church. After the abolition of the union in 1839, the church was handed over to Orthodox believers.

The church is an architectural monument of traditional Belarusian wooden architecture. The building is based on a rectangular log house with a pentagonal apse. The building is covered with a gable shingle roof, which forms triangular canopies at the junctions of the log cabins. The interior is a single-nave hall. The main western facade is completed with a curved pediment flanked by two four-sided towers with tents and domes above them. There is an onion dome above the altar block. A low sacristy and a sexton are attached to both sides of the apse. The walls are sheathed. The window openings are rectangular, on the main facade there are semicircular windows. There are choirs above the entrance. The apse is highlighted by a wooden iconostasis made in the 1830s. The church also has icons of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

In 2010, the building was reconstructed, during which many authentic architectural features were lost. In particular, the former hexagonal domes were replaced by bulbous ones.