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Transfiguration Church in Horbow - Roman Catholic parish church in Horbow, built in the early 20th century as an Orthodox church.

In the 16th century, there was an Orthodox parish in Horbow. After 1596, and before 1687 at the latest, it was transferred to the Uniate Church. In 1687 and in 1772 or in 1854, new Uniate religious buildings were erected in the place of the original church. In 1875, as part of the forceful liquidation of the Uniate Diocese of Chełm, the parish in Horbow was incorporated into the Chełm-Warsaw eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, which met with protests of the local population. At the beginning of the 20th century, the destroyed church was demolished and a new church building was erected, which was consecrated in 1908 by Bishop Eulogius of Chelm. It served its original function only for seven years, because in 1915 the local Orthodox population went into exile. In 1923 the temple was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the revindication of Orthodox churches in the Second Polish Republic. The building was rebuilt in order to adapt it to the requirements of the Latin liturgy; the new main altar was built from parts of the iconostasis. The church's furnishings, in addition to 20th-century elements, include antique utensils from the 18th and 19th centuries.