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Knyaze-Vladimirsky Monastery - a Monastery with an Underground Passage

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Knyaze-Vladimirsky Monastery was established in Irkutsk at the beginning of the 20th century, and the Prince Vladimir Church (Knyaze-Vladimirskaya Church), which gave it the name, was built in 1888, in honor of the 900th anniversary of Christianization of Rus’ and Prince Vladimir himself. However, the church was popularly known under other names, such as the White Church because of the color of the walls, or Litvintsevskaya Church, as the construction was funded by a local merchant Litvintsev.

The Prince Vladimir Church is the only building in the city that has a nave. The temple was created on the pattern of the Old Russian architecture, with a tiered tent-shaped bell tower and onion-shaped domes. The icons for the monastery church are copies of those existing in St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kiev. The exterior decoration of the church imitates the brick patternwork of the XVII century. In 1922, when the monastery was abolished, the authorities confiscated its values and placed there a cavalry regiment of the NKVD. Nowadays the church is again under the supervision of the diocese, and the monastery is restored. When reconstructing the church, an access hole was found under its emergency exit at a depth of three meters. Historians are still trying to find out for what purpose it was made.

Knyaze-Vladimirsky Monastery - a Monastery with an Underground Passage

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