Cerkiew pw. Świętych Cyryla i Metodego, Białowieża
Facts and practical information
The Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius is an Orthodox cemetery church in Bialowieza. It belongs to the parish of St. Nicholas in Białowieża, in the Hajnówka decanate of the Warsaw-Bielsian Diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Erected in 1873 on a rectangular plan. It has a wooden, log, oriented, planked construction. In the front a porch. Presbytery is smaller than the nave, closed trilaterally, with the sacristy on the south side. Metal roofs of the church. The hipped tent roof over the nave, topped with the metal tower with spherical cupola.
The church was entered in the register of monuments on October 19, 1977 under the number A-551.
In the parish cemetery, which exists since the 18th century, the following are buried: Nikolai Abramov - captain, father of the writer Igor Neverli, Jozef Bulak-Balachowicz - Belarusian military officer, general, Jerzy Gniewszew - academic teacher, commander of the Navy, Janusz Bogdan Falinski - geobotanist, D. - architectural engineer, ecological activist, journalist, photographer, Michał Polech - brigadier general, pilot, Zdzisław Pucek - zoologist, long-term director of the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, Rev. Mitrat Klaudiusz Puszkarski - longtime priest of the Orthodox parish in Bialowieza
Białowieża
Cerkiew pw. Świętych Cyryla i Metodego – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Open Air Wooden Architecture of Rus' Population of Podlachia Museum in Białowieża, Bison Show Reserve, Białowieża National Park, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church.
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