Sarny

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Sarny is one of the oldest monuments of the wooden architecture of Polissya.

The church was built in the village of Dorotychy in 1725 at the expense of landowner Antoniy Prushynsky.

Initially, the Trinity Church had two baths, but later, thanks to the efforts of the abbot Father Ioann, a third one was built above the bell tower. In the same year, a house was built for the priest, which is still standing near the church. There is only one throne in the temple - in honor of the Holy Trinity.

Sarny Historical and Ethnographic Museum is a department of the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The exposition is devoted to folk crafts and handicrafts, life and everyday life of Polishchuk peasants.

A mini-skansen (open-air museum) was opened on the territory of the museum in 2020. Monuments of folk architecture from the village of Horynychi have been collected and restored here: two village estates and a wooden chapel of the XVIII century, a smithy and a windmill of the XIX century.

Traditionally, the museum hosts folk art festivals with the invitation of amateur art groups, masters of folk art.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the Art Nouveau style was built in Sarny in 1936 instead of the old wooden church.

Students of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow made a significant contribution to the construction. Construction continued until 1939, but it was never finished - the belfry remained unfinished. The last abbot was Yan Lenynsky, who left the city with the last Poles in 1945.

In the priest's house, the military commissariat was placed, then courses of civil defense and car enthusiasts. The premises of the church itself served as a food warehouse.

The shrine was returned to believers only in 1991. Restoration has begun. In 1995, the restored image of Our Lady of Ostrobram was returned to the church and the first mass was held.