Bread Tower of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery

The Bread Tower of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery was built in the XVII century. It belongs to the Great Assumption Monastery. The Great Assumption Monastery was a larger part of the Kirillo-Belozero monastery complex, therefore, since the XVI century, a large construction of both cells and various economic buildings was carried out in the Assumption Monastery.

Also, the Assumption Monastery had a rather long wall with a whole arsenal of towers, performing in addition to protective functions during the war of ordinary economic in peacetime. The Bread Tower was famous for preparing bread products for the entire monastery. Since in the XVI-XVII centuries the monastery had a large number of people, the preparation of bread became one of the main concerns of the monks at that time.

The bread tower has survived to our time, but needs restoration.