St. Nicholas Church in Białowieża. According to local accounts, there was already a small church in Białowieża in the 17th century, which was burned down together with the village during the plague that raged in 1710. Accounts locate the church on Browska Road. The only preserved memento of it is supposed to be a bell from 1661, located in the cemetery chapel. Unfortunately, there is no confirmation of this information in known written sources. Initially, the Białowieża residents were assigned to the parish church in Shereszewo, which received funds and privileges from Ivan Abramovich already in 1517. After the church in Suchopol was built in 1680 and the Suchopol parish was established, they moved to it. In 1704, the manor in Białowieża received the right to collate and present Suchopol priests from King August II. The affiliation of Białowieża to the Suchopol parish is confirmed by visitations from 1748, 1757 and 1769. In 1757 it had 733 believers, including 83 from Białowieża. In 1769 the parish had 251 families – 23 families from Białowieża (56 people were recorded in confession). Around 1782 the church in Suchopol burned down. Since the chapel built in its place could not accommodate all the parishioners, construction of a new church began. Work on its construction lasted seven years. In 1799 Białowieża with 30 families was still part of the Suchopol parish, although it had already had its own church for a few years. It is possible that the Białowieża residents were assigned to the Suchopol parish as late as 1800, but the visit from 1801 does not mention them. The church in Białowieża was built in 1793. The act of the temple fund was issued on May 2, 1797 by the chief head of the treasury economy, Major Jan Szczepanowski.