Zbigniew Michalczyk

A 17th-Century Iconostasis in the Orthodox Church of St John the Theologian in Nowoberezowo. A Discovery by the Catalogue of the Monuments of Art in Poland. The article discusses the large sections of a 17th-century iconostasis hitherto unknown to scholars and the  conservation services, which have been discovered in the attic of the filial Orthodox church of St John the Theologian in Nowoberezowo (Hajnowka district). It is the earliest extant iconostasis in the Podlachia region and most probably one of the oldest in the lands of the former Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. Its discovery was made during inventorying procedures carried out by the Catalogue of the Monuments of Art in Poland. An analysis of the records of church visitations from the years 1727, 1759 and 1784 has made it possible to trace the transformations in the structure of the iconostasis in the course of the 18th century and to propose its conjectural econstructions in the condition it had in the early 18th century and after 1771.