Pinsky St. Barbara Monastery

Pinsky St. Varvarinsky convent is located in the Belarusian city of Pinsk. The first reliable mention of the monastery in written sources dates back to 1520. It was founded under the Polish King Sigismund I the Old, the wooden buildings of the monastery were later completed by Pinsky Prince Fyodor Jaroslavich. In 1595, the monastery complex consisted of a wooden Varvarinsky church, a house of the abbess, a bakery, a cell building, a belfry gate.

In 1596, the monastery was transferred to the Uniates, and the Orthodox nuns left the monastery. In 1839 the monastery again became Orthodox. At that time, the main shrines of the monastery were the icon of St. Barbara and part of her relics. In 1858, the monastery was transferred to the premises where the Bernardine Catholic monastery used to be. In 1874, the inhabitants of the monastery were transferred to the Minsk Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery. In the premises of the St. Barbara Monastery, a city hospital was placed.

In 1993, the St. Barbara convent was revived. In 1995, he opened a Sunday school for adults and children. The monastery is currently operating. It has a library in it. There are 5 inhabitants in the monastery.