Description of the attraction
The temple in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the city of Kobrin is a monument of Belarusian wooden church architecture.
The first Nikolsky temple in Kobrin was built back in the 15th century, when Prince Ioann Simenovich donated half of his court of Taratop to the Lithuanian metropolitanate and appointed his faithful servant a priest of the church. During the time of the Union, the Nikolskaya Church was occupied by the Uniates. In 1835 the church burned down.
The need for a new church arose because during the spring flood, the Mukhavets river overflowed, and the believers could not cross to the other side, where there was an Orthodox church. Therefore, the Orthodox community received permission to transport and assemble a wooden Orthodox church from the village of Novoselki, where the monastery built in 1750 was abolished.
It is this wooden building that now stands in Kobrin. It was moved and consecrated on December 19, 1939. The church survived two world wars, a revolution, a German fascist occupation and visited the territory of tsarist Russia, Poland and the USSR. Nikolskaya Church was closed only in 1961, when almost all churches in the BSSR were closed. At first, the building was empty, then a grocery warehouse was set up in it.
By a lucky coincidence, the old wooden church has survived to this day. Once, when the church was empty, some drunk people lit a fire in it. But for some reason the fire did not want to burn. There are traces of the fireplace on the floor.
In 1989, the Orthodox community of Kobrin decided to restore the Nikolsky temple. Having examined the church, the believers were convinced that it was completely intact. The temple was hastily repaired and consecrated on August 13, 1989. Later, a narthex was added to the church and a three-tiered bell tower was erected next to the church. Now the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is active.
