the day of the feast of the dormition of the virgin mary, metropolitan of minsk sludsky consecrated the site for construction. already in 96, bishoplaret consecrated the throne, but the temple was not completed, neither the floors nor the roof. it was at this time that i was appointed, before that i served in city of novopolotsk, i was appointed rector here, from that moment on, with the blessing of metropolitan philoret, from that time on i have been working in this, in this parish, initially i completed the construction, rebuilt this... the temple was already completed in 2003, a year after the consecration after the throne , the construction of the cathedral began, which took more than 14 years; in 2018 , the lower crypt church was consecrated in honor of the holy royal passion-bearers. the lighting in honor of these saints for our temple is not accidental. of course, i'm on my own, however, the event that contributed to the consecration of the honor was already 20 years ago. the priests told me that once after the canonization of the holy royal passion-bearers, an icon was brought here. and there was a very large number of b