Church complex of the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God (Kovel)

The church complex of the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God in Kovel began with an anniversary: in 1992, for the thousandth year since the founding of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi eparchy, the city decided to raise a memorial chapel². The site for it, in the area of the Kovel railway stations, was consecrated in 1994, but the economic crisis of the nineties halted the building².

A church community was founded at the unfinished chapel-church in 1998, and on 19 November 2000 the church in honour of the Pochaiv Icon was consecrated². The parish grew, and in 2011 a new three-part, three-domed church in honour of St Sergius of Radonezh was laid down beside the chapel: the first Paschal liturgy was celebrated in it on 5 May 2013, and the great consecration took place on 8 May 2025².

Three priests now serve in the complex². A sisterhood and a brotherhood operate in the community, caring for the churches and the ground around them; a Sunday school for children and young people works there, and the parish charitable project "Sylni, bo razom!" helps the wounded². The complex stands on Veteraniv Street¹.

The community broadcasts its services on a channel of its own, opened on 9 November 2010³. The broadcasts here are daily and dense: the early and the late Liturgy, vespers, matins, the all-night vigil, the parastas, and in the fast the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts³. The akathists stand apart, among them the akathist before the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God³. Beside the services the channel also carries short reflections on the sermon and, for instance, the diary of the parish children's camp³.