Church of Alexander of Svir at the Vaulovsky Skete
The church in the name of the venerable Alexander of Svir, made of stone and warm, was built thanks to the efforts of Lieutenant Vasily Alekseevich Alyabyev and consecrated on September 30, 1767. The church has one altar…
The House Church of John of Kronstadt in Vaulovo Skete
The village of Vaulovo is located in a picturesque area, with a small river flowing nearby, which the righteous John of Kronstadt called "Vzderinozhka" or "Sderinozhka." This ancient village, situated in the Romanovo-Bor…
Isaac Christmas-Bogoroditsky Monastery in the Desert
The monastery was founded by Elder Ephraim in 1659 at the site where, according to legend, the Isaac icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared that same year. After Catherine II's secularization reform in …
Chapel of Alexander Nevsky in Memory of the Defenders of Oryol in 1941
The chapel in honor of the holy righteous prince Alexander Nevsky was built on the southern outskirts of Oryol, in quarter 909, at the site where heroic battles for the city took place in October 1941. Here, a group of p…
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin at Isaac Monastery
At Isaac Monastery, there is one stone and sturdy church. Its front part is cold and has one altar, consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1758. The feast of this church is celebrated on Septe…
Kazan Danilov Women's Monastery in Gorushka
The Kazan Women's Monastery in Gorushka, located near the city of Danilov, was founded in 1894 by nun Mikhail with the blessing of her spiritual mentor, the righteous St. John of Kronstadt. On August 13 of the same year,…
Kazan Cathedral in Gorushka
The Kazan Cathedral was built in the Russian style of the late 1880s and 1890s, which favored ornamentation. The architect was Vasily Antonovich Kosiakov.
The main building of the three-altar church has a square shape, …
Cathedral of the Akhtyrskaya Icon of the Mother of God in Oryol
According to tradition, in the 16th century, there was a Friday church on the site of the current cathedral. In 1678, a census book mentions the Nikitsky temple at this location. By the end of the 18th century, the churc…
Mologsky Pokrovsky Women's Monastery in Bykovo
The history of the monastery begins in 1883. The owner of the estate in the village of Bykovo, Yelisaveta Yermolinskaya, submitted a written request to Archbishop Ionafan of Yaroslavl and Rostov to establish a women's co…
Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin in Bykovo
The Protection Women's Monastery houses a stone winter church dedicated to the Protection of the Holy Virgin. It was built in 1889 and has one altar. The church holidays are celebrated on October 1 and September 28. The …
