Spas-Kupalishche is located where the Sudogda River flows into the Klyazma, in the Sudogodsky district. This was the route from Vladimir to Murom. According to legend, Tsar Ivan the Terrible nearly drowned while bathing, returning to Moscow after the capture of Kazan, but was miraculously saved. In gratitude, he built a wooden church in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The first mentions of the settlement appear in the patriarchal books of 1628: the church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ in the settlement of Kupalishchi. The church was closed after the Great Patriotic War, in 1946-1947. The second birth of the Transfiguration Church is associated with November 4, 2001, when the first residents arrived, nun Solomonia Lukovich and several sisters, who began the restoration of the shrine. In June 2002, Bishop Evlogy blessed the establishment of a convent here under the Holy Bogolyubsky Convent. In the same month, thanks to the efforts and funds of the Holy Bogolyubsky Monastery and the blessing of Archbishop Evlogy of Vladimir and Suzdal, a monastery complex was built from scratch, including a three-story building, a representative house, and utility buildings. A holy spring with a chapel of St. Boniface was also arranged, which helps to rid one of sinful passions, drunkenness, and debauchery, along with a baptismal font completed in 2006-2007. The restoration of the Spaso-Transfiguration Church was completed, and services resumed. In 2012, the Spaso-Transfiguration Convent of the Bogolyubsky Monastery became an independent ecclesiastical unit, the Spaso-Transfiguration Women's Monastery in Spas-Kupalishchi of the Vladimir Diocese.
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