St. Nicholas Brotherly Church

St. Nicholas Brotherly Church, included in the list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus, was built in 1904-06. The construction was carried out on the donations of citizens, as well as sailors and officers of the Pacific Fleet, who considered St. Nicholas their patron.

Some sources mistakenly claim that this church was built on the site of the St. Nicholas Cathedral, where the Brest Church Union was adopted in 1596. The misconception is explained by the fact that the medieval Brest was on the site of the current Brest fortress and was almost completely lost in connection with its construction. And the temple, in which the Unia was accepted, was located approximately in the middle between the White Palace (former Basilian monastery) and the present Kholmsky Gate.

The church is an architectural monument of retrospective-Russian style with elements of Moscow church architecture of the XVII century. The cross-domed temple is richly decorated with friezes, kokoshniks, the vaults are covered with painting. Among the church relics are the relics of the Great Martyr A. Brestkoi, part of the Life-Creating Cross of the Lord, parts of the relics of Saints Theodosius of Chernigov, the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Holy Crucifixion with a piece of stone from Calvary.

In Soviet times there was an archive in the temple.