In the village Zelovo used to be old wooden church. After a fire in 2005, the temple was completely burned out, only the foundation with the crypt remained of it. Now the place of the main attraction is occupied by belfry gate, miraculously not injured in that fire.

Church in the village of Zelovo

The tower is three-tiered, the two lower tiers are larger - four-tiered, and the upper one is eight-tiered, ending with a large dome with an onion dome.

Church in the village of Zelovo and an old gate-bell tower

The exact date of construction of the bell tower is unknown, probably the middle of the 19th century.

Zelovo

By 2012, they finished building the new Trinity Church, it was made of stone, but from the point of view of architecture, it is completely uninteresting.

Ancient gate bell tower in Zelovo

Photographs have been preserved in which you can see how the wooden church of the 1842 model used to look. The building had the shape of a cross on two levels and ended with a massive domed drum. In Soviet times, the temple was closed, the building was used for household needs.

Old photo of Zelovo church
Photo scan from Kulagin's book “Orthodox Churches in Belarus” (2001)

The wooden tower and the new church are located on Sovetskaya Street, Zelovo village (R-634 road), below the mark with a dot on the map.

If you are in these parts, then you can stop by Namenin, where the monastery of Basilian Torokansky once was, and also explore sights of the urban village of Antopol.

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