Bogoroditse-Rozhdestvenskiy Monastery

Severely damaged and terribly desecrated by communists

This double Dutch means the Monastery of Nativity of Theotokos in Russian. I visited it together with my friends on May Day holidays on a warm and sunny day. It is situated practically in the center ...

Monastery in the center of the town

There is relics of the st. Afanasiy (Saharov). Also there was relics of the st. Aleksandr Nevskiy before there was moved to the Saint-Petersburg by the Petr 1. Interesting building that was reconst...

Very cool!

Original Text

This monastery is one of the parts of the Vladimir Kremlin. It is on the Great Moscow Street. I advise to worship the powers of Afanasia Sakharov and visit the museum of Alexander Nevsky (by the way, free).

The bell of the Godorodice-Christmas monastery with the church of Alexander Nevsky ...

Original Text

Although the history of the Godoodice-Christmas monastery is more than 8 centuries, almost all the temples of the monastery have been restored, and more precisely rebuilt in the 21st century. Except for the Church of Christmas ...

Bogorodice - Christmas monastery

Original Text

The monastery was founded by the great Prince Vsevolod Yurievich in 1192. In 1263, Prince Alexander Yaroslavovich Nevsky was buried in the monastery cathedral, whose powers were opened in 1381. The role of the first o ...