Cerkiew pw. Świętego Antoniego Pieczerskiego
Facts and practical information
Church dedicated to St. Anthony Pechersky - an Orthodox parish church in Kuraszew. It belongs to Hajnówka deanery of Warsaw-Bielsk diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
The church was designed by architects Sylvester Vasiluk and Lukasz Prokopiuk and built under their supervision in 1868. It was expanded in 1898 and after 1941, when a bell tower was added. The church is located on the local Orthodox cemetery. In 1925-1932 it belonged to the Neo-Nicene Church, but was returned to the Orthodox parish by court decision.
A wooden, timber-framed, oriented building. A roofed porch at the entrance. A porch preceded by a vestibule. The nave on an octagonal plan. The chancel on a rectangular plan with two side sacristies. Above the porch there is a two-storey tower-belfry, topped with a pyramidal tin cupola with a cupola. Tin roofs of the church. Above the nave there is an octagonal roof topped with a tower with a cupola. Over the presbytery - single-pitched roof with a cross.
The church and cemetery were entered into the register of monuments on May 15, 1998 under the number A-104.
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Cerkiew pw. Świętego Antoniego Pieczerskiego – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Dormition Church, Zbór Kościoła Chrześcijan Baptystów, Cerkiew pw. Zaśnięcia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy, Galeria Hajnówka.
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