Small Mere Tower of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery

The small Merezhny tower in the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery was built in the XVI century. The tower belongs to the Great Assumption Monastery. The small Merezhny tower has not survived to our time, only a fragment remains of it. Now you can see the two walls preserved from the tower, but they are half the height that was once.

The small Merezhny tower stood over one of the corners of the chamber, called the vaulted one. Fishing nets were dried in the vaulted chamber. Immediately with the birth of the monastery, the monks began to engage in fishing, so buildings were needed for storing fish, processing it. And also rooms where welded, dried and stored nets. For this purpose, apparently, and created the Merezhny tower in the monastery.