St. Barbara's Church is an Orthodox church built in the 19th century out of wood. It is a rectangular building with a gabled roof, which above the altar becomes a hip. A quadrangular bell tower has been erected on the triangular pediment of the façade.
The Iwye Mosque is a monument of wooden architecture built in 1884. A minaret and a gallery were made with the money of Tatar emigrants from the United States in 1922. Initially, the main façade was decorated with a gallery on 4 pillars with curved uprights (in the 1970s it was replaced by a low vestibule).
The Cathedral of Saints Boris and Gleb is a 16th-century Orthodox cathedral. The first church on the site of the present cathedral was built in the 12th century, of which only fragments of the foundations remain. The present church was founded in 1517 by Lithuanian Prince Konstanty Ostrogski and Metropolitan Joseph Soltan. In the 17th century, the church passed into the hands of the Uniates (Greek Catholics). The church returned to the Orthodox Christians after the dissolution of the Union in the annexed territories in 1839. The church was rebuilt by the Russians in the years 1873-1875 in the pseudo-Russian style. The building remained in use until 1961 when it was closed down and adapted for an archive. The Russian Orthodox Church received the church in 1996.
The Volozhin Yeshiva was built in the late 19th century. The synagogue now serves as a cultural centre.
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