Lauryshava Monastery

[1] According to Hypatian Chronicle, the monastery was founded around 1260 by the Lithuanian duke Voyshalk "on the river Nioman between Lithuania and Navahrudak".

After adopting Orthodox Christianity, Voyshalk took the name Lawrence (Belarusian: Лаўрыш, Laurysh).

In 1993, the Orthodox Archbishop of Białystok and Gdańsk Sawa (Hrycuniak) and the Bishop of Navahrudak and Lida Kanstantsin (Haranau) consecrated the site of the monastery church.

The church was completed in 1998 and consecrated in honor of the Reverend Elisha of Lauryshava, the monastery's first abbot who had been canonized in 1514.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, on August 15, 2007 the parish was converted into the Monastery of St. Elisha of Lauryshava.