Holy Mount of Grabarka Church of the Transiguration       Tradition is speaking, that in time of the Mongolian attack in XIII century, monks from Mielnik was shelter at mount. Dense woods of Mielnik Forest gived him perfect refuge, here. The monks was take adored icon of the Spas Izbawnik (the Salvator) from Mielnik church. Special cult of the Salvator associated from this place, as seen in name chapel, and future church. When in last XIX century from Mielnik was removed church of the Resurrection, that setting his on place of the little chapel, consecrated this church on name the Transfiguration of the Lord, feast named Spas (Salvator). This church existed to criminal burn on July 1990. New church is a his copy.               The church surround forest of the contribution cross, which had beauty inscriptions writed cyrilic language. All this is a integral part of the femaly monastery under invocation St. Marta and Mary, founded on 1947. Among convents buildings distinguish church under invocation St. Womens of Myrrh-Bearer, remember time of founded convent. Near is situated the pilgrims house.
    Holy Mount of Grabarka is a more important orthodox sanctuary in Poland. Tradition of pilgrimage at Holy Mount since 1710. That time ones from local people experienced sign - all pepole, which reach to a place, becomed be saved from cholera epidemic, ruled here. But much numerous pilgrimages began arrived here after Second World War, when principal orthodox sanctuary - Poczajew and Zyrowice, be found in border ex-USRR (tommorow in border of Belarrusian).              At Holy Mount of Grabarka be helded every year many important celebrity of the feast of the Transfiguration, be named also the feast of the Spas Izbawnik (Salvator). This is ones from 12-th important holidays in orthodox ecclesiastical calendar. Set up this holiday in memory events at Tabor Mount. Except every years Holiday of Spas (August 19), assembled thousand faithfuls (about 100 thousands), Holy Mount is a place May pilgrimage - meetings of orthodox youth from all Poland and from the world.
    Consecrating of the new church, reconstructed after fire, holded on May 1998, just in youth pilgrimage. In 1999 haved place XX All-Polish Pilgrimage Orthodox Youth at Holy Mount of Grabarka. On Holy Mount arrived about two thousand youth faithfuls of the orthodox. Liturgy, on this during be consecrated of the church, presided His Beatitudy Eminence SAWA, Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland.       Important event for monastery and parish to be visit His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW I (day 14.10.1998). After arriving at Holy Mount Patriarch speaking: „This is special place, place of the miejsce deep faith. God not forget about this, which love Him and serve Him”. Superior of the convents welcomed honour guest speaking: „Grabarka, this is heart our church, holy place since centurys”. Metropolitan SAWA defined visit Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW as „new consecrating this place, consecrating gived power and blessing”.       The main celebrations of the jubilee of 2000 years of Christianity was be held in the most important orthodox sanctuary in Poland at the Holy Mount of Grabarka during this year's feast of the Transfiguration, which accompany of the salutation of a copy of the Miraculous Icon of the Iverion Mother of God.       Iverion icon of the Mother of God be found in Iverion Monastery at Holy Mount Athos in Greece. Monks from this monastery was make a present of the copy of this icon to the Polish Orthodox Church, in connection with Jubilee 2000. Its arrived to Holy Mount Grabarka from Siemiatycze together with pilgrimages on day 18.08.2000 (Friday). Icon dated on iconoclassical period (fight between followers and opponents of the cult of icons). According to a legend on IX century a woman from Nicea in Minor Asia, which was commanded a destroyed of the icon, throw out the icon to the sea (legend speaked, that soldiers arrived take off the icon, from the face of the Mother of God flow down the blood and remained of the trace). Icon not be sink, but swimed in a verticaly position, and reached to a Mount Athos (999). There, monk was catch his, and was located icon in interior of the then Georgian monastery of Iverion, but according to a legend alone icon always transfered to over the gate of monastery (icon be called of a guard gate). Presently in this monastery lived Greek monks. Them delegation bringed a copy of this icon to Poland. This copy was perform a monk Arsenius.