Sunday Novodevichy Monastery
Moscow Avenue, 100, St. Petersburg
Description:
Resurrection Novodevichy Monastery, located near the Moscow Gate, is the first female monastery of St. Petersburg.
The maiden monastery arose at the request of Elizabeth Petrovna. However, with the death of the last nuns, the monastery suspended its work. It was revived under Nicholas I, when the monastery was moved to its current place – to the Moscow Triumphal Gate.
The stone five-domed Church of the Resurrection of Christ with 5 aisles (in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the Assumption of the Mother of God, Archistratigus Michael, St. Nicholas and All Saints) was laid in 1849. Two more churches were built on its sides: in honor of the Athos Icon of the Mother of God and in honor of the Three Ecumenical Hierarchs. In 1908 the church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was laid.
In Soviet times, the monastery was looted, the bell tower was blown up, the necropolis with burials was destroyed, some temples were demolished.
In 1990, monastic shrines began to gradually return, and since 1996, monastery life has resumed.