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Nowoberezowo 50, 17-200 Hajnowka (gm. Hajnowka, pow. hajnowski), woj. podlaskie
A wooden church (originally Uniate, now Orthodox) dedicated to St. John the Theologian the Apostle in Nowoberezowo, in the Białystok region. A branch church of the parish of the Ascension of the Lord in Nowoberezowo (Hajnówka deanery).
Nowoberezowo lies in the Hajnówka commune, in the Hajnówka county, within the Białowieża Forest.
The church was built in 1771 on a rectangular plan as a Uniate church; its founder was Izabela Branicka. After the Synod of Polotsk (1839) it became an Orthodox church. In 2023, more than 20 elements of a 17th-century iconostasis - considered the oldest known iconostasis in Podlasie - were discovered in the attic.
The wooden, log-built form of the church with a rich history and the discovered fragments of the historic iconostasis.
For those interested in Orthodoxy and Uniatism as well as the wooden architecture of Podlasie.
No confirmed fixed visiting hours.
Nowoberezowo no. 50, Hajnówka commune, Hajnówka county.
