The Holy Introduction Church, built of brick in 1907, is a pillarless square structure. Today, it is adorned with four small domes at the corners and a five-domed structure over the central part, as well as connected by a narthex to a three-tiered bell tower topped with a spire. In the 1930s, the church was closed, but in the 1990s it was returned to the faithful and renovated.
In 1907, a stone church dedicated to the feast of the Introduction of the Holy Virgin was erected in the village of Belitsa. The construction was funded by donations from parishioners and, according to locals, by the landowner Semikosos from the village of Krupets in the Belovsky district.
The construction of the church began in 1903 and was completed in 1907. The first rector was Nikolai Yakovlevich Gorlov, followed by Mikhail Ivanovich Vishnyakov. In 1929, he was sentenced to three years in prison, but after his release, he continued his ministry until 1937, when he was arrested again. His place of imprisonment is unknown, and he did not return from prison. In 1954, he was removed from operational records.
The church had a parish school and a literacy school. From 1937 to 1942, the church was closed. In 1937, it was used as a stable, and during the war, as a grain storage facility. In 1942, the church reopened, and Father Peter became the rector, who was killed for his faith in the forest near the village of Sukhodol in 1943.
Since 1985, the rector of the church has been Archpriest Dmitry. The church continues to operate and delights parishioners with services. In June 2010, external repairs were carried out, and in the autumn-winter of 2010, the church was gasified with funds from the Korenevsky NBA plant under the direction of director Sergey Leonidovich Rukhin. The gas was turned on December 22.
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