Secrets of Underground Monasteries

Cretaceous caves are a unique attraction not only of the Don Belogorye, but also of the whole of Russia. The chalk divas harbor great Orthodox shrines. After all, unique cave temples and even entire underground monasteries are hidden here! Today there are about forty underground caves in which Orthodox ascetics retreated for righteous living and holy prayer. We will visit one of the most secluded monasteries - the Assumption Divnogorsky Monastery, the monastery is located among a group of chalk pillars - between the Small and Big Divas, at the confluence of the Don and the Quiet Pine River, surrounded by landscapes of cosmic beauty! Visit the above-ground temples of the monastery, admire the bizarre figure chalk pillars. Under the prayer chants, illuminated by the shaky light of wax candles, pass to the cave temple of John the Forerunner, whose vault rests on six massive chalk columns carved into the rock back in 1652.
Next, we go to “Voronezh Palestine” – Kostomarovskiy Spassky Cave Monastery. Pilgrims who visited the Holy Land claim that the surroundings of Jerusalem and the landscapes of the Kostomarov monastery are very similar. And it is no accident that one of the ascetics of the cave monastery called the Kostomarovsk monastery New Jerusalem. The first caves of the Kostomar monastery were excavated in biblical times. It was here that the first Christians came, inspired by the sermons of Andrew the First-Called. And many historians are inclined to think that, perhaps, it was from here that the baptism of great Russia came.
We will visit the cave Spassky temple - the largest cave of Kostomarov dungeons. This is a whole underground complex with cells, a cave temple and an underground tomb. You will visit a unique two-altar temple for cave monasteries, consecrated in the name of the Savior Not Made with Hands. Here everything is literally “impregnated” with amazing antiquity and holiness, because the unique Spasskaya Cave is the most ancient place of residence and feat of hundreds of the most righteous and holy Christians.

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