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Nikolo-Bavykinsky Men's Monastery in the Village of Zarya Svobody

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Nikolo-Bavykinsky Monastery is an Orthodox men's monastery that belongs to the Skopin Diocese and is located in the village of Zarya Svobody in the Sarayevsky District of the Ryazan Region.

In 1879, a peasant woman from the village of Belorechye, Elena Nikolaevna Sazonova, purchased a plot of land in the Bavykinskaya wasteland from the local landowner A. F. Khanykov, near the church of the village of Bolshie Mozhary in the Sapozhkovsky District of the Ryazan Province. On this land, she built a two-story building for a charitable institution with a home church dedicated to the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.

In 1883, Sofia Khanykova, the wife of a sub-lieutenant, and the Sapozhkov merchant Alexei Shulgin, who was the guardian of the charitable institution, donated significant real estate for the establishment of a women's monastic community. At the request of S. Khanykova, the Holy Synod established the Nikolskaya community in 1888, securing for it 530 dessiatins and 727 square fathoms of land in the Bavykinskaya wasteland. From 1888 to 1893, a wooden church, eight buildings for the residents, a house for the priest, three houses for pilgrims, and several utility buildings were constructed. The community housed 100 residents.

By the decision of the Holy Synod on August 25 and September 5, 1893, the community was transformed into the Nikolo-Bavykinsky Women's Monastery.

The monastery was closed in 1918. Since 2007, it has been revived as a men's monastery and received official registration on April 24, 2008.

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Николо-Бавыкинский Мужской монастырь в посёлке Заря Свободы

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