Nikolay”s church in Staraya Belica
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Type: Churches, Pilgrimage places, Wooden architecture
Style: Baroque
Date of Foundation: 1 century
Status: Republican value
Republic of Belarus, Gomel region, Gomel district, v. Staraya Belica
Nikolay”s church in Staraya Belica - a monument of wooden architecture with Baroque style elements. Church building concerns first half XVIII century
Temple represents an example the three-riding wooden churches which practically haven”t saved till our time for territories of Belarus. In an iconostasis the considerable part of old icons was saved, has been rescued and a wonder-working icon of Madonna «Troeruchica».
Legends connect a temple with visiting by its Catherine II during arrival of the empress to P.A.Rumjantsev”s manor and the district city of Belica. It is considered also that under a church altar representatives of an ancient princely sort are buried.
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