Voznesenskiy Pechersky Monastery — a monastery founded by St. Dionisy between 1328 and 1330.
Location
The Voznesensky Cathedral has a complex construction history. It is a large five-domed church set on a tall white-stone undercroft.
The Nizhny Novgorod Voznesenskiy Pechersky men's monastery, situated on the steep right bank of the Volga River, halfway up the hillside, approximately three kilometers from the Kremlin downstream, is one of the oldest monastic communities in the Nizhny Novgorod land.
History of founding
The monastery was founded between 1328 and 1330 by Dionisy, a monk of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery. Under the leadership of this prominent figure of early Rus, the monastery quickly grew in economic strength and became a major spiritual and cultural center of the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod Principality. It was possible to receive a high-quality education there by the standards of the time, and a monument to the written culture of those years survives in the oldest chronicle compilation to have come down to us — the Laurentian Chronicle, compiled in 1377 by the Pechersky Monastery monk Lavrentiy. By a decision of the NKVD for Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, it was closed in 1924. It was reopened in 1993.
The monastery today
Today the architectural ensemble of the Nizhny Novgorod Pechersky Voznesensky Monastery, dating from the 17th–19th centuries, is recognized as a monument of architecture of federal significance. As of January 1, 2004, the small brotherhood of the Voznesenskiy Pechersky Monastery is composed as follows: the abbot, Archimandrite Tikhon; hieromonks — 6; hierodeacons — 3; monks — 3; novice-monks (inoki) — 2; obedience novices — 6.
Contact information
Address: 603063, Nizhny Novgorod, Privolzhskaya Sloboda, 108. Tel.: (831) 436-25-79
Links
- Voznesenskiy Pechersky Monastery in the evening (archive)
- Inside Voznesenskiy Pechersky Monastery (archive)