About the Church

According to ethnographer Kirill Anikievich, the church in Obol appeared in the 1840s when it was moved from the Luskin estate, whose owners had moved to Warsaw. The National Historical Archives of Belarus preserve metric records of the Obol Assumption Orthodox Church for the year 1846. An 1899 description of the church states: "A small wooden church; the furnishings and sacristy are mediocre, the library is insignificant; singing in the church is weak and rough, not on par with local schoolteachers; the parishioners of both genders numbered 2563".  

From the late 1860s until the beginning of the 20th century, the priest of the Obol church was Vikentiy Merkuryevich Shabunio, and from 1907 to 1909, his son Filaret. In 1929, the church was closed and used as a warehouse until the beginning of the war. From 1941 to 1948, the church stood empty, and then it was transferred to the collective farm as a warehouse. Restoration work was carried out only in 2023.