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The church in Knychówek was built in a transitional style between Gothic and Renaissance, based on a design similar to the old parish church in Białystok. It was consecrated in 1733 by Father Józef Olszański (d. ca. 1738), titular bishop of Serra and suffragan of Chełm (1728-1738). Through marriages and transactions, Knychówek later passed successively to the Chalecki, Lewicki, Kuczyński (from 1712), and Ostrowski families (from 1864). In 1727, Wiktoryn Kuczyński (1668-1737), castellan of Podlasie (1730-1737), signed a contract with Łukasz Piotr Grzegółkowski, a woodcarver from Drohiczyn, to create an altar for the new church in Knychówek. Feliks Kuczyński (1770-1814), the last cup-bearer of Podlasie (1794), funded a brick "hospital" between 1792 and 1798 at the parish church, built by bricklayers from Drohiczyn: Piotr Filipowicz and Jędrzej Bielecki (currently housing the vicarage and organist's office). Joanna née Wulfers (1812-1888), wife of Aleksander Kuczyński (1803-1858), was also a prominent patron of the Knychów church. During the January Uprising, Fr. Gen. Stanisław Brzóska (1834-1865), who was hiding on the Korczew estate, conducted services in the Knychów church. Next to the church is a new brick rectory, built in 1990-1991 at the initiative of Fr. Prelate Mieczysław Onyśek.

Next to the church is a brick bell tower and a three-sided chapel from 1806. In the niches of the chapel are sculptures: the Mother of God, Christ at the Pillar and St. John of Nepomuk. The church is located at the entrance to Knychówek, next to the Siedlce - Korczew district road.

The main altar, founded in 1727 by Wiktoryn Kuczyński, castellan of Podlasie, was made in the Baroque style by the woodcarver Łukasz Piotr Grzegółkowski from Drohiczyn. In the altar there is a painting by Józef Buchbinder of St. Stanislaus the Bishop resurrecting Piotrowin, as well as sculptures of St. Adalbert and St. Augustine. In front of the presbytery, on both sides of the nave, there are late Renaissance side altars. In addition, the church has a wooden Baroque baptismal font, a late Renaissance two-person bench and commemorative plaques of the Kuczyńskis and Ostrowskis - owners of the Korczew estates, who are buried in the local crypt.

Inside the church there is a three-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, narrower and lower than it. Renaissance barrel vault with lunettes and stucco moldings in the so-called Kalisz-Lublin type: ornamented ribs with motifs of quatrefoils, squares, circles and hearts. In the windows there are stained glass windows depicting, among others, the founder Ludwika Ostrowska.

The temple has late Gothic features with Renaissance elements. External walls, plastered, with three high and deep arcade niches on each side, giving the impression of buttresses. Inside each niche, a narrow and elongated window. The porch is crowned by a slender, quadrangular tower, changing to an octagonal one in the upper part. Inside the tower, cylindrical staircases, one of which leads to the top and the other to the choir.

During the January Uprising, in the church in Knychówek, services were conducted by Fr. Gen. Stanisław Brzóska, who was hiding in the Korczew estate. After the uprising, in 1867, another reorganization of church affiliation took place. The Janów diocese was abolished, and until 1889, the bishops and administrators of Lublin, each time turned to the Metropolitan of Warsaw and received nominations from him for administrators of the Podlasie diocese. Finally, in 1889, Pope Leo XIII canonically joined the Janów diocese to the Lublin diocese.

As a result of the Third Partition, the areas on the left bank of the Bug are occupied by Austria, which changes the church affiliation. In 1805, the parish, previously belonging to the Lutsk diocese, becomes part of the newly established Lublin diocese. Another reorganization takes place under Russian rule in 1818, when the parishes of the Lublin diocese are incorporated into the Janów diocese, known as the Podlasie diocese.

The construction of the church lasted from 1631 to 1668. It was built in a transitional style between Gothic and Renaissance, according to a design similar to the old parish church in Białystok. The consecration of the temple took place in 1733, and was performed by Fr. Józef Olszański, titular bishop of Serra, suffragan of Chełm.