Orthodox Temples Walking Trail

The trail promotes Orthodox culture in northern Podlasie – monumental, often wooden Orthodox churches and other places of worship: chapels, votive crosses. Walking trail. Signage is provided on the length of over 150 km from Bialystok through Bielsk Podlaski, Hajnowka, Narew to Michałowo. Through the county leads a route of about 50 km in length. Because of its length it would require re-marking as a bicycle trail. The trail promotes Orthodox culture in northern Podlasie – monumental, often wooden Orthodox churches and other places of worship: chapels, votive crosses. This trail in its conduct presents i.a. diverse in style and age temples of Bielsk Podlaski, the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in Hajnowka known throughout the country and abroad and other interesting localities such as: Ploski - there is situated a historic pillar chapel from 1863 called "the lantern of the dead"; Chraboły – here worth a visit is the Głowkowo Range, in which according to legend appeared an icon of Our Lady; Haćki - and here you can see a well-preserved early medieval gord, called by the local people "the castle"; Orla - in the village there is a synagogue and a Jewish cemetery (kirkut) as well as a wooden Orthodox church on the stone foundations from 1797; Szczyty Nowotwory – here worth seeing are: a wooden manor of A. Wiewiórski from the first half of the 19 th c. and the "Hrabniak" Range where is located a cemetery with the graves of stone from the 10 th and 12 th c.