In 1938, it was listed among the churches slated for destruction as part of a Polonization and reversion campaign, but its demolition was prevented by the local Catholic parson.

The church serving this parish was funded by Ursul Voloshin, a courtier of Alexander Jagiellon,[2] at the beginning of the 16th century[3] or, according to another source, in 1499.

[2] From its initial construction to 1721, several churches operated consecutively in Sławatycze; each was built on the site of the previous one when it became dilapidated or was destroyed by fire.

[2] According to Grzegorz Pelica, the actual founder was Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł, who endowed the parish in 1698 and in 1721 provided funds for a new two-story church.

The church also contained a sacrificial table[a] with a depiction of Golgotha, while the dome featured images of the Crucified Christ and the Holy Trinity against a blue background with golden stars.

[2] After the change in denomination, elements foreign to the Orthodox tradition (such as the pipe organ and Stations of the Cross) were removed from the interior.

[4] By the early 20th century, the 18th-century church was in such poor condition that the parson, Father Vladimir Antonovich, deemed it unsuitable for renovation.

[2] Another proponent of building a brick church in the village was the abbot of St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna, Archimandrite Seraphim [pl].

Klavdiy Paskhalov, a Slavophile, publicist, and activist of the Black Hundreds organization,[7] joined the parson of Sławatycze and Archimandrite Seraphim in the committee overseeing the construction work.

[4] The brick church in Sławatycze operated for only three years, as in 1915 the local Eastern Orthodox population fled into Russia along with the retreating Russian troops.

According to local recollections, that year a mysterious light, visible for 10 km, appeared over the ruined church,[2] prompting the Roman Catholic parson in Sławatycze to initiate efforts to clean up the site.

According to Grzegorz Pelica, Father Mikołaj Dejneka celebrated the Holy Liturgy for Pascha in 1952, and subsequent services were held irregularly.

[4] In documents from the Department of Religious Affairs of the municipal council in Lublin from 1956, the Sławatycze church was already listed as a parish seat.

[11] In reality, that year the Polish Orthodox Church gained the right to use the building but could not register it as a permanent filial or parish site.

[12] Permission to use the church – similar to several others in the region – was related to earlier discussions between the authorities and the Orthodox hierarchy about conducting missionary work among Greek Catholics, which was especially supported by Metropolitan Macarius of Warsaw and all Poland.

[14] The local authorities agreed to reopen the dilapidated building to the Orthodox faithful thanks to the efforts of Archimandrite Eulogiusz [pl], the abbot of St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna.

[c] Constructing groups of identical churches based on a single design was not uncommon in contemporary Russian sacred architecture.

[3] It is a tripartite structure with a rectangular church porch, a single square nave covered with a tent roof, and a polygonal apse.

Above the church porch rises a bell tower topped with a spire, which in turn is crowned by a small onion-shaped dome.

[3] Additionally, the church's furnishings include an icon of the patrons of the founding family – Saints Claudius, Elizabeth, and Basil.

The first depicts the figure of the Mother of God modeled on the Theotokos of Pochayiv and St. Onuphrius, framed with the motif of the Eye of Providence and putti.