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The temple was built in 1894-1897. The founder of the church was Tsar Alexander III, who personally visited the construction of a new brick church in August 1894. It was erected in the place of a wooden church from the first half of Nineteenth century, which after the demolition was moved to the village of Trześcianka, where it still functions today as a cemetery chapel of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God. In January 1895, the newly consecrated church was consecrated, which was considered the most beautiful in the whole Grodno province.

The Białowieża Forest from 1888 belonged to private tsarist goods. In Białowieża there was a tsar's palace, from which the ruler used during arrivals on hunting. So the temple played the role of the tsarist church.

The building was built of red brick, which was made on the spot by a German imported from Upper Silesia - Juliusz Karol Miller. To lay foundations, hewn stones from the Bialowieza Forest were used. The top of the temple was crowned with two domes. One of them was intended for the belfry. The bell, weighing 125 kg, was so resonant that in favorable weather conditions his voice was carried all the way to the edge of the Bialowieza Forest. From Petersburg, an iconostasis from Chinese porcelain was brought. The final finishing works were closed in 1897, just before the visit of Białystok to the successor of Alexander III, Tsar Nicholas II.