Zhabchitsy. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church.

How to drive along the M10 highway from Brest and before reaching Pinsk for several kilometers, turn on the right to the village of Sadovy and the town of Zhabchitsy. These settlements are very close, and therefore there is often confusion about where the Orthodox church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa is located in Sadovoye, or Zhabchitsy. The place of Zhabchitsy is more ancient, and the name Sadovy is modern.

The Orthodox church of St. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa has been built in the center of the village. The temple was built by the Ignatius Krasicki foundation in 1788 during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Krasicki had their own estate in Zhabchitsy, where they were the owners from the second half of the 18th century until 1939. The Krasickis built a one-story palace and established a landscape park.

In the 1870s, the famous artist and composer Napoleon Orda visited Zhabchitsy, who left an image of the local estate. The palace was damaged during the First World War. In Soviet times, the estate housed collective farm institutions. The buildings and the park gradually fell into disrepair. The palace burned down during the war in 1944.

Initially, the church belonged to the Uniates, and in the 19th century, during the time of the Russian Empire, after the prohibition of the union, it passed to the Orthodox believers. In 1863, the church building was renovated and rebuilt. In Soviet times, the church was closed and re-handed over to Orthodox believers in 1991.

The church consists of three log cabins of equal height: a vestibule, a prayer hall and an apse. The main volume is covered by a two-tiered roof, above which rises an octagonal drum with an onion dome. The church has been renovated.