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St. Nicholas Monastery: History of the Monastery and its Gate Survived

Temples and places of worship • Abbeys and Monasteries • Other places

The stone gate in the form of an arch, with icons "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in the upper part, standing today in Samara at entrance to the district military hospital, is in fact the gate of St. Nicholas Monastery, founded in 1857. Its structure includes a hospice, cells of the abbot and monks, a library, as well as wooden buildings: refectory, candle shop, bath house and other outbuildings.

There were three temples here throughout the history of St. Nicholas Monastery. The first temple bore the name of St. Panteleimon. The second one, with two bell towers, was named after St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and was abolished in the early 20th century. The third temple was also consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and was distinguished by a large-scale painting of 96 murals and a luxurious iconostasis. In the 1930s, the temples were given to the factory for a club, and later were dismantled for building materials. Only the gate survived from St. Nicholas Monastery, which has been transferred to another place. The cell building, used by a private company, and the former refectory, which was multiply remodeled in the twentieth century, have also survived.

St. Nicholas Monastery: History of the Monastery and its Gate Survived

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