Cathedral of St. Simeon

The Cathedral of St. Simeon the Stylite is the first Orthodox church in Brest, built in 1865. The five-domed cathedral, built in the Russian-Byzantine style, is the main temple of the city. And after the night lighting was performed, the cathedral began to decorate Brest in the dark.

The main shrine of the temple is the relics of the Monk Martyr Athanasius Filippovich. Also here are stored particles of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, St. Sergius of Radonezh, St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk and St. Innocent of Radonezh.

Above the church gates hangs a copy of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God, in the temple there is a list of the miraculous image of the Mother of God “Feodorovskaya” of Kostroma and a collection of several icons in the kiota, donated in 1881 by the Sakharov family.

Here, as with many other Orthodox churches, there is a church school and an Orthodox library. The Council publishes the newspapers Spiritual Herald and Brest Diocesan Gazette.

On the territory of the cathedral and beyond there is a cemetery of German soldiers who died during the storming of the Brest fortress.