St. Nicola Convent, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
St. Nicola Convent was presumably founded in 1348. The founder, Dmitry Prilutskiy, was a follower of the Saint Sergey Radonejskiy who himself visited the convent several times. In 1348 its wooden structures were destroyed by the tartars and during the Time of Troubles by the Lithuanians and Poles. The end of the 17th and the middle of the 18th century saw stone facilities appearing within the Convent’s walls. In the first decades of the Soviet Union the enclosure wall, the tented bell-tower dated back to1693, and the Nicola cathedral built in 1721, were dismantled. What has survived from the monastery are the Annunciation Church with epigraphs of old times, the St. Peter and Paul’s gate church built in the middle of the 17th century, fragments of the monastery wall with the gates, and a cell constructed in original sanctuary is now being actively restored. The Nicola Cathedral, the main church of the sanctuary, was built in the image of the Uspenskiy Cathedral of the Kievsko-Pechorskaya Laura. The churches of the sanctuary are a place where the relics of the two Pereslavl Saints – the blessed prince Andrey Smolenskiy and the reverend Korniliy Molchalnik – lie. The nunnery was the home for over a hundred nuns. In 1923 the convent was closed. The convent was used as a cattle-breeding farm, many facilities were rented off. Only in 1994, after many years of oblivion, the former sanctuary regained its original purpose and received the first four votaries. Today, about 50 nuns live in the convent which, as before, is now one of the prosperous sanctuaries on the Pereslavl land. (source: )
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Location: 43, Gagarin Street, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
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