Solotchino monastery

Solotchinsky monastery in Ryazan was founded in 1390. This monastery was founded by Grand Duke Oleg Ivanovich Ryazansky. First, the church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built of wood, then the cells. At the end of the XVII century in the monastery in addition to the three already existing churches - Nativity, Pokrovskaya and Alexeyevskaya were built Holy Spirit Church and gate temple of John the Forerunner. A fortress wall with towers was built of stone, with a chapel in the southeastern tower.

In the XVIII century under the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the crypt was equipped with the tomb of the holy Prince Oleg and his wife Princess Euphrosyne. At the monastery there was a one-storey building of the abbot, built in the XVII century, fraternal cells, an icon painting workshop, a school. In the 1920s, the monastery was closed, the buildings of the monastery were partially destroyed.

In the 1960s, the monastery was restored. In 1990, the monastery was returned to the relics of the holy Prince Oleg, previously transferred to the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum - reserve. Since 1994, the monastery has been functioning as a women’s monastery. It houses 21 nuns. The monastery has a library. There are excursions with a visit to temples.

To this day, from the ancient buildings preserved the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, the gate church of John the Forerunner, the temple of the Holy Spirit with a bell tower, in the lower floor of which is the Church of Peter of Athos and Onuphry the Great.