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In the city of Ivanovo, at 120 Lezhnevskaya Street, there is a church consecrated in honor of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. The temple belongs to the Vladimir nunnery.

At the end of 1899 E.G. Korina, who was the daughter of a merchant, as well as her godmother N.I. Shcherbakov decided to organize a female Ivanovo-Voznesensky monastery. It was assumed that the new monastery would be dedicated to the Vladimir Mother of God, because the icon of this particular saint was kept in their family for many years as a family heirloom. Then in 1900 the wife of the owner of the monolithic plant S.I. Zhokhova decided to donate a small plot of land on which the Konstantinov brothers built outbuildings and a wooden outbuilding. One year later, Zhokhova turned to the spiritual consistory of the city of Vladimir with a proposal to build a female Alekseevskaya almshouse on this land.

Construction work on the construction of the temple began in mid-1902 and, six months later, they were completed. Initially, according to the project of P.G. Begen, it was supposed to build a two-story brick building of an almshouse with a nearby house church. But the architect changed his mind, and on May 11, 1903, the solemn laying of the three-altar Church of Our Lady of Vladimir with the side-chapels of Mikhail Klopsky and Mary Magdalene took place. The construction of the temple was carried out at the expense of N.I. Derbenev, as well as the owners of the hedge-berd factory, the Konstantinov brothers. The main altar was consecrated on December 22, 1904, and the side chapels - three years later.

The church was built of red brick, which was similar to the style of the Yaroslavl and Moscow churches of the 17th century. The volumes of the facade protrude significantly and have a three-bladed end. Window openings are double and triple and are skillfully decorated with curly platbands, while the entrances are distinguished by beautiful grand porches standing on round pillars directly above the gable roof. The wedding ceremony of the church was performed with five chapters. In the inner part, a four-tiered iconostasis has been preserved, equipped with icons of ancient "ancient Moscow" writing. A wooden bell tower was erected near the temple.

After the construction work in the temple was completed, the number of women seeking to work and live in the almshouse increased significantly. A small number of women were novices from other monasteries, but in the new church strict monastic customs began to be proclaimed, after which the life of the inhabitants of this institution was established in due order. During 1906, a two-story wooden house was built, in which the "monastery workers" could live; a refectory was made on the ground floor.

In the period between 1905 and 1907, numerous requests from almshouse residents began to come to the spiritual consistory of the city of Vladimir for registration of a women's community, in which it was possible to live only according to the established rules under the leadership of the main nun ... This idea was supported by many representatives of the merchant class, who at one time donated money for the church.

At that time, there were about 50 women in the almshouse, mostly represented by peasant women from Tambov, Ryazan, Vladimir provinces, as well as the widows of priests. The women were able to process more than fifteen acres of land on which they sowed potatoes, oats and rye. In the area where the almshouse was located, there was an apiary, several vegetable gardens and a farmyard. The "workers" served the church, created an excellent choir and conducted funeral readings and funeral services for the dead, and also did handicrafts.

In the Church of Our Lady of Vladimir, festive services were performed, which attracted many people, including the intelligentsia. It can be concluded that at that time the nunnery was almost completely decorated, and the almshouse that existed with it acted as a small charitable institution.

In the 1920s, the temple was occupied by a student dormitory, and the nuns moved to the refectory ... Soon the temple was converted into a club, and later under the warehouse. But in 1993, services resumed. At the moment, restoration work is underway in the temple.

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