Hello, @OlgaKlimchik
They are so cool and unique! I don’t know the reason why but wooden buildings make me feel familiar. I wonder if most of the Japanese shrines and temples are made of wood.
Thank you for sharing this nice and heartwarming post:-)
Hi, @helga19 As @OlgaKlimchik says!
I found your post just now. Thank you for posting about that interesting cave monastery:-)
@MAHBUB_HYDER I haven’t dissapeared at all 
. I am here. There is a summer and it’s too short in Belarus, I have a lot of interesting to do now 
, for example visiting this architectural museum.
@HiroyukiTakisawa The wood is more live and warm than a stone .
I never thought about the material Japanese shrines are made of.
It seems the most of the shrines have majestic stone beauty nowadays, everywhere in the world.
But your question made me curious.
Wunderschöne Bilder @OlgaKlimchik
und ein sehr interessanter, ausführlicher Artikel.
@user_not_found Thank you for your words.
@OlgaKlimchik Hello, I really like and enjoy your post. It was so well written and very descriptive. The photos are great as well. It’s unbelievable how those Churches build so long ago are still standing. There were carpenters for sure back then.
May God bless you,
@RamsesMorales It seems so . When modern matherials were unavailable, people had to apply different tricks to live. All cultures have something what shouldn’t exist because of its old age, but it exists and makes us to be surprised.
Hi @OlgaKlimchik . When I saw your post I told myself let me go out first and return back to come and read it slowly till the end. The post is very interesting at per with one I read in the economist.
intriguing how wooden churches were dismantled and re assembled at a museum.
The icons are relic of the past , very beautiful and sacred. A commendation to those who thoughts of preserving the churches.
You write about how Eastern orthodox church, Catholic church and uniatism movement had interacted in Belarus of the years. I am just curious about the churches , especially the Uniatism movement.
Kudos , this post is a very good one.
Totally agree with you.
Thank you,
As usual this is really an amazing post about ancient Wooden Churches of Belarus, your posts are always unique & charming.
I have never seen a wooden church before, your photography is fantastic with the contrast of blue sky and green grass.
Thank you for yet another wonderful post.
@Emmik20 Have you seen the icons in churches by links? There are really ancient examples.
Your question about Uniatism isn’t so easy to explain, I need to add some history lesson for better understanding.
In 1569 two countries - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Belarus was a part of it then) and the Kingdom of Poland - united to resist the Moscow kingdom and formed a new country: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. But two countries as parts of one had different religies: Catholicism in Poland and Orthodoxy in Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it contributed to the separation of the new country. So in 1596 (The Union of Brest) the decision was made to create a new religion: Uniatism, it was an artificial religy, a symbiosis of two religions: Catholicism and Orthodoxy under the authority of the Pope of Rome. It hasn’t too strict rules, all traditions were close to Orthodox first, but became more and more Catholicism-like in future.
People were in no hurry to accept the new faith, it was implanted by force. Ordinary people were often forced to do it, noble people either remained in Orthodox or directly converted to Catholicism.
Uniatism was widely spread during two centuries till The Partitions of Poland, when the most territory of Grand Duchy of Lithuania became Russian (1792).
Freed from the influence of Poland, people began to massively convert back to Orthodoxy, though Uniatism exists in Belarus (and not only in Belarus) till now, but it’s not widespread.
@RamsesMorales Thank you, but don’t forget to tag the interlocutor (a symbol @ and a name), otherwise your comment can be missed.
@vijayparadkar Thank you so much for your such warm words 
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Hi @OlgaKlimchik . Thanks for the answer given on the question I asked. You have shed light on my question . Now I understand what is called Uniatism.
@OlgaKlimchik ancient yet beautiful . lovely photos and detailed post
@And12-X2 Thank you so much
Sounds good my fear friend @OlgaKlimchik
You are enjoying a lot now a days! Hopefully you will also share with us of your travelling and others experiences here in connect so that we may love to see and enjoy as well.
By the way did you see my last means recent post?
Have a nice day 
@OlgaKlimchik You’re welcome. I believe I’m doing so in such a way, not sure why it might be showing up differently. Thanks anyway, appreciated!
Nice pictures