Pechersky Ascension Monastery description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Nizhny Novgorod (Topic)

Pechersky Ascension monastery description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Nizhny Novgorod. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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On the banks of the Volga is located the founded 1328 and 1330 years. Archbishop of Suzdal St. Dionysius Pechora Ascension Monastery. In the 1640-50s. the famous Nizhny Novgorod architect Antipa Vozulin built the currently existing monastic ensemble, including the five-domed Ascension Cathedral with a gallery, a tent-roofed bell tower, a tent-roofed Assumption Church with a refectory, a tent-roofed gate church of St. Euthymius of Suzdal, abbot chambers and cell buildings with the temple of St. Macarius. A stone fence and a small gateway church of the Intercession of the Virgin were built later, in 1765

By the decision of the NKVD in the Nizhny Novgorod province, the monastery was closed in 1924. Divine services were resumed in 1993. In 2000-2004. the monastery buildings have been thoroughly restored.

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