Orthodox church in Ciechanowiec

I'm not saying it's ugly, but in Podlasie they are much more beautiful. A little bit attractively situated.

Outside nice but the interior unavailable

Printed sources state that in the XIVth cent. There was an Orthodox church in Ciechanowiec. On the road from Ciechanowiec to Siemiatycze, near the village of Malec, there is a mound with a height of 3 m and a diameter of 20 m, which is called the church. In the 16th century, Ciechanowiec was divided into two parts: on the right bank Nurca - Poland - Nowe Miasto, and on the left bank - the Old Town - a side of Ruthenia. In 1580, the Old Town had 275 houses, and the New Town 58. In historical accounts, the description of the Old Town was given as follows: "The Old Town has an oblong market with two rows of bricked masonry, a monastery of the Merciful Sisters and a Greek Catholic church ... "Location of the church of Saint. Jerzy was at present ul. Kościuszki, on the left from the market square. After the return of the Uniates to the Orthodox Church, the number of parishioners in 1847 was 201 people. In the town itself, next to the market, on the initiative of the Russian authorities in 1866, the chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky, which was destroyed in the interwar period. In 1873, a new brick church was built, devoted to May 22, 1877, on the day of the Lord's Ascension, which has survived to this day. Within a dozen or so years, the church was equipped with various kinds of sacrifices. At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of parishioners was 200 men and 173 women. The church was located in the Drohiczyn deanery of the diocese of Grodno. The First World War brought irreparable losses to the church in Ciechanowiec. The equipment, so rich, has been plundered, and the building has been earmarked for other purposes. After the population returned from the curia, the parish was liquidated, and the church was joined to the parish in Czarna Cerkiewna, and the services were celebrated once a month. During the Nazi occupation, the building of the church was used by the occupiers as a place of execution. It was found that over 60 people died of different nationalities. The war activities severely damaged the church, because the Soviet army set up an observation point in it, and the enemy tried to eliminate it with artillery fire. The post-war years were also very hard for the Orthodox population. The unstable situation weighs heavily on the church. Healed the wounds only in 1953, when the church in Ciechanowiec was joined to the parish in Siemiatycze. Priest of priest Piotr Kuźmiuk undertook the effort of rebuilding the temple. Another major refurbishment was carried out by the vicar of the Siemiatycze parish, priest Grzegorz Sosna, in the years 1977-1981. At that time, a new original iconostasis was designed by the sculptor Wiaczesław Szum. The church was equipped with utensils, and the property was fenced. At the renovated temple in 1982, the parish was reactivated.

Nice, tidy but without climate for me.

Saint orthodox parish George in Ciechanowiec, according to various sources, was established between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The first Ciechanów church existed until the mid-eighteenth century, when it was replaced by a new wooden temple. The present stone temple was built on the site of an older one in the 1870s.