Divnogorsky in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God Monastery

According to legend, the Divnogorsky Uspensky Monastery was built in 1640 near the village of Divnogorje, Voronezh region. It was founded by schemamons Xenophon and Josaf. According to legend, they, natives of Sicily, sought refuge from Catholics and found it on Russian lands. They settled in caves.

Documentary Divnogorsky monastery originates in 1653. It was built by monks and Cossacks who were hiding from the Polish Catholics led by the abbot Guriy.

After the peasant war and the attacks of the Tatars, only ten people remained in the monastery, together with them, hegumen Tikhon. They were rebuilding the monastery. In 1686, the Divnogorsky Monastery is a large farm, a center of spiritual education, and its abbot becomes an archimandrite.

In 1786, the monastery was closed (then there was a numerous closure of the monasteries by order of Catherine II). The monks, seven people, were transferred to the monasteries of the Voronezh diocese. In the XVIII-XIX centuries begins the restoration of the monastery after 40 years of desolation. In March 1898, Archimandrite Florence was appointed abbot. Thanks to him, the monastery becomes the most comfortable monastery. In 1903, 250 years of existence of the monastery are celebrated, and since 1928 its ruin begins.

In 1924, the date of the closure of the monastery, the library and the bell tower were destroyed, the monks were shot. On the site of the monastery - a rest house.

Decades later, the Voronezh Museum restores the cave church and on August 28, 1991, the first divine service is held in the Church of the Big Divas. The monastery is being returned to the dioceses. Rehabilitation work is beginning. Currently, the Divnogorsk monastery has been restored.