Church of the Intercession (Sławatycze)

The Church of the Intercession is a Polish Orthodox Church parish church in Sławatycze. It belongs to the Terespol Deanery of the Diocese of Lublin and Chełm of the Polish Orthodox Church.

The first Orthodox church in Sławatycze was established in the late 15th or early 16th century. After 1596, the parish administering it adopted the Union of Brest. The currently operating church was built between 1910 and 1912, replacing an 18th-century Ruthenian Uniate Church structure. The building was funded by the Slavophile publicist and landowner Klavdiy Paskhalov. The church was completed in September 1912 and has since been the main parish church in Sławatycze. From 1915 to 1918, the church functioned as a field hospital. In the Second Polish Republic, it again became an active Eastern Orthodox church. 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. In 1947, when the Eastern Orthodox population of Sławatycze was deported during Operation Vistula, the church was abandoned and deteriorated over the next three years. Irregular services resumed from Pascha 1952. It was returned to regular liturgical use in 1965 through the efforts of Archimandrite Eulogiusz, the superior of the St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna.

The church is located in the center of the town on Kodeńska Street (on the south side of the market square). It was entered into the heritage registers in December 1988 (again on 20 September 2011) under the number A/1410.