Church of Saint Michail in Sluck, Eastern Orthodox wooden church in Sluck, Belarus.
The Church of Saint Michail is a wooden house of worship in Sluck that displays the architectural traditions of the Eastern Paliessie school. Its structure follows Orthodox design principles with walls made entirely of wood and features typical of regional church construction.
The church began as the Konstantinovskaya church in the Old Town and was moved to the Ostrov suburb at the end of the 18th century, built on the site of the Mikhailovskaya church dismantled in 1795. French troops destroyed it in 1812. It was originally two-log, and a bell tower was added on the east side at the end of the 19th century. In the 1990s it became a cathedral.
The patronal feast is celebrated on 21 November, the day of the Archangel Michael. The church holds the rank of cathedral of the Slutsk eparchy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, a status it received in the 1990s. Before that it had two attached churches, of Saint Barbara at the cemetery and of Saint George in the village of Khranovo, and five chapels in nearby villages.
The church sits in the central part of Sluck and is easy to reach on foot from the main streets of the town. Visitors should dress respectfully since it is an active place of worship where services occur regularly throughout the year.
The church began as the Konstantinovskaya church in the Old Town and was moved to the Ostrov suburb at the end of the 18th century, built on the site of the Mikhailovskaya church dismantled in 1795. It was first a two-frame structure; the bell tower was added from the east only at the end of the 19th century. A 1793 record already called it old but not rotten and fit for services.
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