ENThe article is devoted to the practice of organizing and conducting general visitations of the Uniate churches of the Pinsk-Turau eparchy in the XVII–XVIII centuries. It included temples in the Mazyr and Pinsk districts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The author identifies three stages in the conduct of visitations during this period and indicates their chronological scope. Based on the method of checking the temples, there are "point" or "solid" visitations. The form of filling in the protocol of the test results, the appearance of new sections and headings is analyzed. The circle of questions that are fixed in visits is outlined. As an example, the text of one of the earliest documents of this type is fully published: the visitation of the church in the village of Moladava, Pinsk district, 1698.