Raifa Bogoroditsky Monastery (3 hours)

Raifa Theogoroditsky Monastery is the largest operating male monastery of the Kazan diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, founded at the beginning of the XVII century by the monk Filaret, officially lit at the beginning of the second half of this century and named after the first temple - in the name of the Holy Fathers in Raif and Sinai Murdered.

. At the same time, an exact copy of the miraculous icon of the Georgian Mother of God was brought to the monastery, the main shrine of the monastery, to which tens of thousands of pilgrims come annually. This is one of the first Orthodox monasteries built on this territory after the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. At the turn of the XVII and XVIII centuries, the Brotherly Corps was erected with a miniature temple in the name of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother the Holy Martyr Sophia. At the end of the second half of the XIX century, the Georgian Cathedral was built. At the beginning of the XX century. built the Trinity Cathedral on the site of the temple of the end of the XVII century. and above the holy gates of the southeastern wall of the monastery built a five-tiered bell tower, in the lower tier of which was a small temple in the name of Archistratig Michael.

The monastery is located 27 km from Kazan on the territory of the Volga-Kama Reserve and on the way to it you will be told the story of its origin, the tragic situation in Soviet times and the revival in the early 90s. Now the remarkably restored architectural ensemble of the monastery is one of the most majestic and luxurious in the Middle Volga region. Special picturesqueness gives it a unique natural environment: Raifa Lake and a magnificent pine forest. Inside the monastery is the Holy Spring. Pilgrims and tourists visiting this place receive God’s grace of spiritual and bodily healing.