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Zhirovichi. St. George the Victorious Church.

Church

Church

Belarus, Grodno region, Slonim district, Zhirovichi.

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13.02.2025

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There is a wooden Orthodox church of St. George in the village of Zhirovichi, Slonim district. The temple was built on a hill in the local ancient cemetery. The monument was built in the 18th century during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The church is an architectural monument, which was created in the traditions of wooden folk architecture. It is likely that the temple originally belonged to Uniate believers. The church is active. There are many ancient graves and tombstones near the church in the cemetery.

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Historical

Historical

Architectural monument

Architectural monument

Location

Latitude: 53.01943568
Longitude: 25.34030676

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Алег Дзьячкоу

13.02.2025

Zhirovichi. St. George the Victorious Church.

In the village of Zhirovichi, Slonim district, there is a famous Orthodox monastery and a spiritual seminary. All guests and tourists who come to the place also visit the local spring and font. There are so many preserved monuments and shrines in the monastery that almost no one notices the wooden church of the 18th century on the way to the monastery and font.


 St. George's Church was built on a local cemetery on a hill during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The temple was built in the early 18th century. In the 19th century, Archpriest Plakida Gavrilovich Yankovsky, an associate of the last Uniate Metropolitan Joseph Semashko, was buried in the church. Above his grave, there was a cast-iron slab in the wall with the date of the priest's life "1810-1872".


It is likely that the Church, like the monastery once, originally belonged to Uniate believers. The church has a very simple architecture and is a monument of folk wooden architecture.


The building is single-tower, has a rectangular volume in plan, to which a multi-faceted apse is attached. The building is covered with a gable roof. A trapezoidal pediment rises on the main facade. Above the pediment is a small four-sided turret with a figured barrack dome.

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