Holy Aleksievsky nunnery description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Saratov (Topic)

Svyato-Aleksievsky nunnery description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Saratov. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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In 1848 Bishop Afanasy (Drozdov) of Saratov and Tsaritsyno bought a plot of land from Taman for the bishop's dacha, four miles from the city with a garden and a grove, with an area of about 16 acres. Before the construction of the house church, houses for the monks-schema monks were hastily built on the site - the skete and the whole territory began to be called the Upper Monastery.

By the end of the 1880s, under Bishop Paul (Volchinsky), a church in the name of St. Alexis of Moscow was built on the already fenced site of the skete, after which the bishop's dacha acquired for many years the name of St. Alexievsky skete. The church stood on an elevated place surrounded by a garden and daily received pilgrims for conversations with the bishop and the wise elders of the skete. The summer residence of the clergy was also famous for its healing spring, about the life-giving healing properties of which were legendary.

In 1918 the skete was alienated from the Orthodox Church, later changing many owners. The temple was devastated and lost its original appearance - five domes and a belfry were demolished. Since 1929, there was a children's tuberculosis sanatorium in the church, in 1960, to heighten the desecration, an abortion clinic. In 1982, the site was transferred to a drug treatment hospital, and already in 1986, the land was transferred to the construction of a ski base.

In 1990, after the petition of the Archbishop of Saratov and Volgograd Pimen, by the decision of the city executive committee, the land area of the former skete, which was greatly reduced (due to buildings), was transferred to God's monastery.

Now the territory is ennobled and restored the temple is the Holy Aleksievsky nunnery, with bells and a belfry. The parishioners still collect pure and medicinal water from the spring. There is a Sunday school for children at the monastery.

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