Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Nosów

The currently existing church was constructed in 1862 funded by the owner of the local estates, Józef Wężyk, and in 1875, it was handed over to the Orthodox parish.

Despite the deportations of the Ukrainian population to the Soviet Union and Operation Vistula, when most Orthodox parishes in the Lublin Land ceased to function due to the lack of faithful, the Nosów church continued its pastoral activities.

[4] In 1862, Józef Wężyk, the local landowner, funded the construction of the current building – the first brick church in the area.

On 8 November 1881, after a renovation, it was re-consecrated by six clergymen led by Archimandrite Narcissus [pl], the abbot of the St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna.

[4] Nosów was one of the few villages in the northern part of southern Podlachia where, after the 1905 edict of toleration, the majority of residents remained Orthodox and did not convert to Catholicism.

[4] In 1919, the Polish Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment did not include the Nosów church on the list of proposed legal Orthodox pastoral sites in the Lublin Voivodeship.

Nevertheless, by 1921, the church was the seat of a statutory parish, one of four in the Biała Deanery of the Diocese of Warsaw and Chełm [pl].

[6] The church in Nosów was closed following the deportations of the Ukrainian population to the Soviet Union and Operation Vistula.

[2] Since 1993, the Nosów church has been a center of veneration for the Leśna Icon of the Mother of God, a devotion present among the local population since the late 17th century.

The Diocese of Lublin and Chełm also aims to commemorate the traditions of the Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God [pl], which existed in Leśna Podlaska from 1875 to 1914,[13] and was closely associated with the Nosów parish in the 19th century.

[4] Annual celebrations in honor of the Leśna Icon of the Mother of God take place in Nosów on the first Sunday after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

The western facade is single-axial with a semicircular portal and a triangular gable featuring a round window.

The royal doors feature a cross with a small icon of the Annunciation at the center and figures of the Evangelists on the arms.

[2] The side altar, dating from the 18th century when the church was still a Uniate parish, contains an icon of the Mother of God (type Hodegetria) framed between Corinthian columns, topped with an Eye of Providence depiction.

There are also two 19th-century paintings featuring the Virgin Mary with Child and Archangel Michael and Saint Pantaleon, as well as processional banners depicting the Resurrected Christ and St. Nicholas (two identical banners), the Ascension and Job of Pochayev, the Acheiropoieta and the Nativity, Saint Pantaleon, and the Holy Family.

[2] The church's liturgical utensils include a 19th-century ciborium and a vessel from the same period for blessing bread, oil, and wine, as well as five candlesticks from the same century.

Church from the east side
Church from the cemetery side
Destroyed fresco on the facade of the church
Bell tower