On the initiative of Archimandrite Vitaly (Maximenko), who was expelled by the Polish authorities from the Pochaev Lavra, a new monastery, the Monastery of St. Job of Pochaev, was founded in March 1923.
Later, a large printing house was built here, along with a home church, a refectory, an economic building, a guesthouse, and a stone chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God at the military cemetery in Ladomirova, where Russian soldiers who died in World War I were buried.
During World War II, church literature published in Ladomirova was distributed among believers from Soviet Stalingrad to Bavarian Munich.
On July 31, 1944, with the approach of the Red Army, by the order of Metropolitan Anastasius, in case of the Bolsheviks' arrival, the brethren were to leave the monastery, taking with them the main relics. On the feast day of St. Seraphim of Sarov (August 1 in the new style), the monks served the liturgy and a farewell prayer service, after which they relocated to Bratislava, then to Germany and Switzerland.
Some of the fleeing monks established a community in the basement of the Synodal House of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in Munich, in the Bogenhausen district.
The new monastic community was organized according to the charter of the former monastery, which, in turn, was borrowed from the Pochaev Lavra.
The monastery became one of the places for preparing the Act of Canonical Communion. Here, Archbishop Mark and Archbishop Theophan (Galinsky), head of the Berlin Diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate, met. In September 2004, meetings of the dialogue commissions of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate were held at the monastery.
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