was painted by one of our parishioners, he studied icon painting, and when we turned to our bishop saphronius a request, and he wrote a letter to mount athos, when it was still in 2018, from mount athos they sent us a piece of the relics of the venerable selanathos. that’s why we have an icon with a piece of the relics of the venerable village of athos. local residents also donated many icons to this temple. their there were so many that it was decided to open the museum of the people’s icon at the temple. this was the center of the principality; there were a lot of antiques here. and the city, you saw, has been preserved, they call the belarusian suzdol, mstislaval. that’s why there are a lot of architectural monuments preserved here, in people’s homes. many religious objects have been preserved, some icons were passed down from generation to generation, like family icons, someone died, the icon remained, so people brought it here, because it is preserved here, and somehow in the church, the icon must be in the church. over the almost four years of the museum’s existence , about 100 icons ha

painted by one of our parishioners, he studied icon painting, and when we made a request to our bishop saphroniuswrote a letter to mount athos, when it was still in 2018, they sent us a piece of the relics from mount athos. many icons were donated to this temple and the locals decided to open a folk museum at the temple. residents. there were so many of them that icons were adopted. this was the center of the principality; there were a lot of antiques here. and the city, you saw, has been preserved; it is called belarusian suzdol, steslavl. therefore , there are a lot of architectural monuments preserved here and... people have a lot of religious objects preserved in their houses, some icons were passed down from generation to generation, like family icons, someone died, the icons remained, so people brought them here because there is safety here, and as if in a church, the icon should be in church, over the almost 4 years of the museum’s existence , about 100 icons were collected here, most of them were donated by residents of bastenovichi; in the 17th century, this village was famous for its ic