The wooden church with a bell tower was built in 1872 by the efforts of the parishioners on the site of an old church that existed since 1750. It was rebuilt in 1896. It is located in the center of the village on an open, slightly elevated site. The church has three altars: the main one is dedicated to Archangel Michael, the northern one to the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, and the southern one to the Prophet Elijah.
The volume of the three-part parish church is oriented along the east-west axis. The temple is a square structure with one large dome formed by a light octagon on a square base and a wide octagonal onion dome with a significant drop, topped with a small onion-shaped dome on an octagonal neck. The roof of the church is four-pitched. The altar is pentagonal and narrower than the church itself, with a gentle five-pitched roof crowned with a small dome with a cross. The refectory is wider than the church but lower than its square structure, with a gable roof reaching the cornice of the square.
The four-tiered bell tower has lower tiers of square shape, while the upper tier is octagonal. The tiers are separated by cornices, and their height is determined by the horizontal divisions of the church. The upper tier of the bell tower is topped with a tent with pediments at the base of the faces. The bell tower is crowned with a dome on a slender octagonal neck with a decorative metal cross on a round base.
The floors are wooden everywhere, with flat suspended ceilings in the altar, refectory, and bell tower. Pairs of square columns with cubic bases and profiled capitals adjoin the side walls of the church. The solea in the church is two-tiered, with a semicircular pulpit and rectangular protrusions of the choirs. A simple three-tiered wooden iconostasis has survived. On the western wall of the church, there are choirs in the form of a narrow balcony on two columns and consoles with a railing made of turned balusters. Access to the choirs is via a narrow staircase in the northwest corner of the church. The interior walls of the church are hewn and painted with oil paint. Large figurative compositions on the theme of the 'Passion of Christ' are visible. The eastern sails depict the Evangelists, while the western ones, above the choirs, feature plant ornamentation, and in the octagon, figures of saints in full growth. The iconostasis is painted in white and gold. Icons, utensils, and decorations of the church are absent.
In the spacious refectory, illuminated from both sides by windows, the walls and ceiling are plastered. The upper part of the walls is finished with cornices, and there is a round rosette on the ceiling. Between the windows were images of saints in full growth, which have poorly survived. In the northeast and southeast corners of the refectory, there are rectangular altars with a single step. In the western narthex, the walls are painted. Along the northern wall, there is a staircase to the second tier of the bell tower.
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