Soce | |
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Village | |
 Orthodox chapel of Elijah the Prophet in Soce | |
  Soce | |
| Coordinates: 52°57′N 23°24′E / 52.950°N 23.400°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Hajnówka |
| Gmina | Narew |
Soce [ˈsɔt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narew, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Narew, 27 km (17 mi) north-west of Hajnówka, and 25 km (16 mi) south-east of the regional capital Białystok.
The village is inhabited mostly by Orthodox Belarusians.
An ethnographic-tourist project called "The Land of Open Shutters" is realized in Soce. The main objective of this project is to preserve an original wooden architecture of cabin-like old cottages with intricately carved ornaments like vibrant and colourful shutters or dynamically designed edge guards.
Despite the recently increased modernisation, the traditional architecture is still in evidence.