Church of Saviour Transfiguration in Porplische
To book a tourTransfiguration Church - a monument of wooden architecture, was built in 1627 as the Belarusian Greek Catholic (Uniate) сhurch, was renovated in 1794, and was sanctified as the Orthodox Church in 1881 after major alterations. Three years later, the belfry was added on it. Temple is sheathed with horizontal boards.
The tample looks like one spacious hall. The iconostasis has fragments of the old carved wooden altar of the 18th century. It is covered raised floral decoration in the Baroque style, is decorated with wooden sculptures of angels, bouquets of flowers, fruits, decorative vases. The presence of the "Uniate" design in the current Orthodox Church can be considered as almost unique, because after the abolition of the Uniate Church (1839), the vast majority of former shrines was significantly reworked in accordance with the canons of Orthodoxy.
In the church are kept Locally icon of Uniate letters 18th - beginning of the 19th century: "The Holy Family", "Christ", "The Virgin and Child", "Cover", "Nicholas", altar icon "John the Revelator". reveal all text