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St. George the Victorious Church in Velikiye Luki

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The chronicle of the parish, started in 1914, contains interesting entries. It states that the current church was built on the site of the previous one, destroyed by fire during the German occupation in 1915 and 1917. The wooden church was consecrated in honor of St. George the Victorious on October 22, 1926, with the blessing of Archbishop Alexander of Polesie and Pinsk, who managed the Baranovichi district. Since July 1, 1928, the church became part of the Grodno diocese. In 1930, parishioners collected 1,275 zlotys for the purchase of bells.

Interestingly, the first mention of the wooden church in the village of Luki appears in the documents of the visits of the Uniate churches of the Minsk and Novogrudok dioceses from 1680 and 1682. They indicate that the parish had 540 parishioners, and the rector was Yakov Radevic.

In the description of the churches and parishes of the Minsk diocese from 1879, the wooden St. George Church built in 1770 is mentioned again. A church literacy school was established at this church in 1853, and a public school in 1862.

According to the local priest, Father Anatoly, the old wooden church from the second half of the 19th century stood nearby. The new church was built from 1923 to 1926 and was recently faced with brick.

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Храм святого великомученика Георгия Победоносца в Великих Луках

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