The image of the Icon of the Mother of God of Belynichi has become not only the central axis in the history of the Belynichi, but also one of the most famous and beloved icons in Belarus. Centuries of veneration of the icon have led to the fact that there are a great many legends, legends mixed with facts and guesses about the shrine. For example, according to one legend, the icon was the reason for the foundation of the city of Belynichi back in the XIII century, when the Kiev monks decided to build a temple and a city on the spot where the shrine began to shine. This miracle is reflected in the 2nd icon of the Akathist of the Belynich icon: "Understand the wondrous miracle, how from Your holy icon the rays of light emanate, the God-loving monks, who brought Your holy image to our country and placed it in the church of the prophet Elijah, when from these most luminous rays in the night it was light like in the days, with fear and with trembling I will perform the all-night prayer before Your holy icon and strengthen myself with hope for the mercy of God."

According to another version, the image of the Mother of God was stolen by Catholics from the Orthodox and transferred to the Carmelite church in Belynichi only in the XVII century. After the conclusion of the Brest Union (1596), the Iliinsky church passed to the Catholics, and after a while it was destroyed.

Then the miraculous icon stayed in the church of the Belynichi Carmelite monastery, founded in 1624 by Lithuanian Hetman Lev Sapega on the banks of the Druti River, 45 versts from Mogilev. The icon was revered by both Catholics and Orthodox. In 1832, the monastery was abolished, and the church operated as a parish church.

In 1876, it was transferred to the Orthodox with the restoration of the monastery. On April 12 of the same year, the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the church on the throne consecrated by the Orthodox bishop in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. A year later, the Nikolaevsky Monastery was transferred here from Mstislavl. The Belynich icon remained in the temple, up to 10 thousand pilgrims flocked to worship it every year. In the Mogilev diocese, it was considered a rule to venerate the Belynichi shrine before going to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra or Pochaevo. Despite the antiquity of the icon, high art preserved an extraordinary freshness of colors in the image of the face; the abundance of grace poured out from the icon, through the prayer of faith, filled the hearts of the Orthodox with joy.

After 1917, two lists of the Belynich Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which were in the temples of eastern Belarus in the late XIX – early XX centuries, have been preserved. The St. Nicholas Convent in Kaliningrad also houses the image of the Mother of God "Belynichskaya". Before the persecution, he stayed in St. Nicholas Church near Belynichi, in godless years he was kept by pious parishioners, and in the 80s he was secretly transported to Kaliningrad.

The iconography of the image belongs to the type of Hodegetria – the head of the Virgin is slightly turned to the Blessed Virgin, Who blesses with his right hand, and holds a power in his left. In the right hand of the Mother of God is an elongated decorative scepter. On the heads of the Divine Infant and the Most Holy Theotokos are patterned royal crowns.

In 1925, the monastery was closed. There is information that the miraculous icon was transferred to the Mogilev Museum of Local Lore. During the Second World War, the shrine disappeared from the local history museum along with other museum valuables, including the Cross of St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk.

In 1990, a church was built in Belynichi in honor of the image, now a list (copy) of the icon is kept there. The image of the Mother of God with the baby, which became the symbol of the urban settlement, appeared on the coat of arms of Belynichi.

The Belynich Icon of the Mother of God is a common shrine of the Christian world.