The brick chapel with an onion dome, consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, was built in 1994.
The Karachev Odryn Men's Monastery, dedicated to St. Nicholas, originated in the early 15th century at the site of the miraculous appearance of this saint's image. The first mention of the Odryn Monastery appears in a state charter composed by the nun Eupraxia, daughter of the Lithuanian prince Olgerd, who headed a nearby women's monastery. In this document, she transferred part of her lands to the ownership of the Odryn wilderness. In 1697, His Holiness Patriarch Adrian officially approved the establishment of the Odryn Monastery. The period of flourishing for the monastery came during the leadership of Abbot Varnafa (1705-1720), under whom many buildings were erected, including a stone church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Sign" with a belfry and the Nicholas Cathedral, which replaced the wooden church.
On July 22, 1995, the Odryn Women's Monastery in the name of St. Nicholas was opened at the site of the destroyed monastery.
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