Toplov monastery. Summer

The women’s Orthodox monastery in the Crimean village of Topolevka, although it belongs to the “reborn”, does not have on its territory significant architectural ensembles or archaeological monuments, extensive park spaces or endless views of the surrounding landscapes. You should not come here in search of amazing imagination, grandeur. All its content is cozy, but miniature.

The main territory of the monastery is only a few temples, a font and a residential monastic building, located around a miniature park, and the distances are laid in five minutes of a leisurely step in either direction. Here is the space of pilgrims, whose journey has not worldly entertainment, but spiritual goals.

Curious tourists on the territory of the monastery do not stay long, looking for entertainment in overcoming several kilometers of mountain forest trail to distant fonts. A noisy group of heated tourists will flash past and again around the silence and peace.

P.S. As "theater begins with a hanger", so the territory of the Toplovsky monastery begins with an updated gate. However, to call the simple word "gate", in fact, the front portal can not. Photography cannot convey the real grandeur of the architect’s idea and the skill of the blacksmiths who created this multi-level folding masterpiece of three-dimensional interlacing of oak branches with flexible rods of a curly rose.