Monastery of St. Nicholas—Svyato-Nikolsky Monastery

St. Nicholas Church was rebuilt in 1998

Photo: Gavrilov S.A., Wikimedia Commons Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

Photo: Gavrilov S.A., Wikimedia Commons

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Photo: Gavrilov S.A., Wikimedia Commons

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The church was enlarged in 1864; demolished and rebuilt differently in 1998

Photo, 1909: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russia Beyond Used by permission

Original St. Nicholas Church, taken in 1909; demolished and rebuilt differently in 1998

Photo: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russia Beyond

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The St. Nicholas Monastery, 1909, from left: bell tower & Transfiguration Church, St. Nicholas Church (later demolished), Church of Sts. Simeon & Anna over Holy Gate, Cathedral of Elevation of the Cross (in scaffolding)

Photo: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, 1910 Library of Congress

Source: RusMania

Verkhoturye, Sverdlovsk Oblast Russia

Russian Orthodox

The monastery, founded in 1904, was the first monastery in Russia's Asian territory and is the oldest surviving monastery beyond the Urals. During the Soviet era the monastery was closed and the St. Nicholas Church and Transfiguration bell tower were destroyed. The monastery was used as a center for juvenile offenders. The relics of Simeon of Verkhotursk, a local saint, are kept here and it is a popular pilgrimage site, drawing up to 60,000 pilgrims. In 1998 the church was rebuilt in a different form.