Church of the Acheiropoietos | |
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Cerkiew Cudownego Zbawiciela | |
52°26′09.8″N 22°47′10.9″E / 52.436056°N 22.786361°E | |
Location | Rogawka |
Country | Poland |
Denomination | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Churchmanship | Polish Orthodox Church |
History | |
Status | active Orthodox church |
Founder(s) | Szymon Szum |
Dedication | Acheiropoieta |
Dedicated | 29 August 2015 |
Architecture | |
Completed | 1854/1858 |
Specifications | |
Materials | wood |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of Warsaw and Bielsk |
The Church of the Acheiropoietos in Rogawka is an Orthodox parish church that belongs to the Siemiatycze Deanery of the Diocese of Warsaw and Bielsk of the Polish Orthodox Church.
The church was constructed in the 1850s at the initiative of Szymon Szum, a resident of Rogawka, on the site of an older church that had existed since at least 1646. Since its dedication, it has been almost continuously active (with a break during the mass deportation from 1915 to 1918). Until 1996, it was one of the filial sacred objects of the Parish of Saints Peter and Paul in Siemiatycze , after which it became the main church of an independent parish.
Since 1893, the church has been particularly venerated for housing the icon of the Acheiropoietos, which was stolen in 1980 and replaced with an exact copy. Inside the church, there is a 19th-century iconostasis.
The church is located within an Orthodox cemetery situated on a wooded hill approximately 250 meters southwest of the road that passes through Rogawka.[1]