Novo-Tikhvin women's monastery description and photos - Russia - Ural: Yekaterinburg (Topic)

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The Novo-Tikhvinsky convent is the oldest Orthodox monastery in the city of Yekaterinburg. The history of the monastery began back in 1796 with an almshouse at the cemetery Assumption Church.

The founder of the monastery was the daughter of a craftsman from the Verkh-Isetsky plant - Kostromina. Officially, the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery was approved in December 1809. The construction of the monastery lasted almost throughout the entire 19th century. Every woman could join the community, regardless of age. From the middle of the XIX century. the monastery was the largest in the Urals and one of the largest in the country. The main shrine of the women's monastery was the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God.

In September 1824, the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery was honored with the visit of the great emperor Alexander I. The monastery was decorated with new temples. In September 1823, a church dedicated to All Saints was consecrated, rebuilt from a stone monastery chapel. The construction of the Alexander Nevsky Church, which was founded in 1814, continued, residential buildings, utility and work premises, a house for orphans and widows, a hotel and a stone fortress wall surrounding the monastery were erected. In 1832, the construction of a church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” was completed, located near the hospital cells. At the beginning of the XX century. surrounded by a high wall with towers, the Novo-Tikhvinsky nunnery had already six churches and 135 nuns and 900 novices lived.

In 1918, the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna was under arrest in the monastery, who was later killed in Alapaevsk. During the years of Soviet power, in 1920 the monastery was closed, and the cemetery was liquidated. At that time, many buildings of the architectural ensemble of the Yekaterinburg Novo-Tikhvinsky Monastery were rebuilt or simply destroyed. A military hospital was located on the territory of the monastery, and later (1960-1990s) in one of the former monastery temples there were expositions belonging to the regional museum of local lore.

Gradually, the Novo-Tikhvin convent began to revive only in 1994

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