Vitebsk Church in honour of the assumption of the blessed virgin Mary was built on the site of a wooden prayer house of old believers in 1852. The new Church was built on the spacious white-stone quadrangular with rounded altar wall and the tall, slender bell tower. It's not like the local Orthodox clergy, which in the mid-nineteenth century in Vitebsk supported the temporal power.

In the middle of the XIX century the old believers in Vitebsk were closed rich community. Fleeing from persecution nikonian Church after joining in Vitebsk, Russian Empire moved here old believer communities.

The official reason for the confiscation of the Church in favor of the Orthodox Church was the participation of believers in anti-government riots. On October 19, the Church was again consecrated by the Archbishop of Polotsk and Vitebsk Basil (Loginin), who advocated the strengthening of Orthodoxy in the former Polish lands.

After the revolution the Church's bell tower was destroyed. In Soviet times, the Church of the assumption, like the other temples of Vitebsk, was closed. In 1954 it was decided to transfer the abandoned old building for the needs of the pedagogical Institute.

In 1997 the building was given to the Orthodox Church. Reconstructed. Rebuilt bell tower and a dome. In the temple brought Orthodox Christianity SVT. Theophan the Recluse, right. John the Russian, Vic. Barbara, MCH. Mamas, SVS. MCH. Vladimir. Currently in the Church of the Dormition of Vitebsk, a Sunday school and an Orthodox Sisterhood.