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Saint Michael the Archangel Church in Bielsk Podlaski

Bielsk Podlaski

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## A wooden church in the city centre The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel at 36 Mickiewicza Street is one of Bielsk Podlaski’s distinctive historic monuments. The wooden church was built in 1789 as a Uniate church and now belongs to…

Saint Nicholas Church in Kleszczele

Bielsk Podlaski

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## A former bell tower, now a chapel Kleszczele preserves a wooden building connected with the former Church of Saint Nicholas. The surviving filial chapel is not the parish’s main church: it is the bell tower that outlasted the old comple…

Church in Puchły

Bielsk Podlaski

## A blue Orthodox church by the Narew In Puchły, a village in the Narew municipality, stands one of Podlasie’s most recognisable wooden Orthodox churches. The Church of the Protection of the Mother of God is known for its blue façades, ri…

Church in Wojszki

Bielsk Podlaski

## St Michael the Archangel Chapel The village of Wojszki, in Juchnowiec Kościelny municipality, is home to a small Orthodox filial chapel dedicated to St Michael the Archangel. It was erected as a votive chapel commemorating Russian soldi…

Church of the Dormition in Kleszczele

Bielsk Podlaski

## A 19th-century masonry Orthodox church The Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at 2 1 Maja Street is the parish Orthodox church of Kleszczele. It was built in the 1870s as a larger masonry church for a growing community. It sta…

Wooden Orthodox Church in Soce

Bielsk Podlaski

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In Soce, one of the three villages in the Open Shutters Land, a small wooden Orthodox chapel of St Prophet Elijah stands by the main road. It is a quiet Podlachian stop and a filial chapel of the parish in Puchły, not a large church for re…

Land of Open Shutters

Bielsk Podlaski

In the Podlasie region, in the Narew valley south of Białystok, three villages — **Trześcianka, Soce and Puchły** — form the **Land of Open Shutters**: a cultural trail of timber architecture decorated with white and coloured shutters, woo…