Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Austrian Church (Gorodets)

28 Shchorsa Street, Gorodets.

The Church of the Assumption was founded in the second half of the 19th century.

After 1905, the building was reconstructed.

The Church of the Assumption is a small brick rectangular church with one dome and a tented-roof bell tower.

It is an Old-Rite church of Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, The so-called belokrinichniki gathered there. To say the truth, today, the Austrian Church belongs to another Old Believer hierarchy, "Old Orthodoxy" (the former Beglopopovskaya Hierarchy); and the Church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. However, the Church is still referred to as Austrian.

The Church had not been shut down until the 1930s.

In the 1990s, after the reconstruction, church services were resumed. Now, this is the only functional old-rite church in the town.

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