Pokrovsky women's monastery

The Pokrovsky Women’s Monastery is a stavropegial monastery of the Russian Church in Moscow, near the Pokrovsky outpost. The monastery was founded as a male monastery in 1635 in memory of Patriarch Filaret. The buildings of the temples were erected in the Byzantine style, according to the project of a talented architect, academician of architecture M.D. Bykovsky.

In the first years of Soviet power, the monastery was closed, and since 1934 its buildings housed a printing house, a magazine editorial office and a sports hall. On the site of the cemetery at the monastery, a park of culture and recreation was laid out. The Pokrovsky Monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church only in 1994 and the Holy Synod decided to renew the Pokrovsky Monastery as a female monastic monastery. In the late 90s of the twentieth century, the restoration of the monastery was completed. On the Cathedral square, on the side of the temples and under the shade of trees stands out with its glazed walls water-holy chapel.

The monastery is especially revered by believers, because here are the remains of St. Blessed Matrona of Moscow, transferred here in 1998. Every day there are those suffering to worship Matrona, touch the holy relics or icon, tell her about their sorrows or troubles and ask her for help. Today Pokrovsky Monastery is the most visited in Moscow.