The Church of the Intercession is a wooden Orthodox church built in 1885. It is a monument of eclectic architecture using forms of classicism and retrospective Russian style. It consists of a vestibule, a nave, a main hall made of logs, an apse with side sacristies.
St. Paraskieva Church is a wooden church built in 1610 as a United Church. It was given to the Orthodox in 1886, returned to the Catholics in 1920 and restored in 1925. After the Second World War, it was again transferred to the Orthodox Church. The church consists of a simple wooden house with four walls under a hipped roof with an onion-shaped spire.
St. Nicholas Miracle Worker's Church is an Orthodox church built in 1870. The church was erected in the style of the national buildings in yellow painted wood, with a cross plan. In front of the entrance of the church, there is a porch supported by six columns, on which a patron saint icon is hung.
The Resurrection Cathedral was built in 1995 in honour of the victory day of the Second World War. It is the largest religious building in the city of Brest and one of the largest in Belarus. In 2011 and 2012, the upper parts of the domes were decorated with gold leaf instead of silver according to the orthodox tradition of religious architecture.
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