Novouzensky Holy Trinity Convent - a women's Orthodox monastery that existed in the town of Novouzensk of the Samara province (now the Saratov region ).
| Monastery | |
| Novouzensky Holy Trinity Convent | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russian empire |
| City | Novouzensk |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Samara and Stavropol |
| Type of | female |
| Established | 1859 year |
| Key dates | |
| 1893 - transformation into a monastery | |
| Date of Abolition | |
| Status | abolished |
It was founded in 1859 as a women's community, which after 34 years was transformed into an Orthodox convent of the Samara and Stavropol diocese. There was a parish school and hospital at the monastery, one temple operated. After the establishment of Soviet power, the monastery was closed, and all buildings were demolished.
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History
The monastery counted its history from the female Orthodox community , founded in 1859 in Novouzensk. The community was originally approved by the Samara Spiritual Consistory on January 25, 1859. It was located on a plot of land with an area of 5 acres allocated for these purposes by the Novouzensk city community [1] . The cloister is located in a picturesque corner on the northern outskirts of the city [2] .
On November 4, 1868, a decree of the Holy Synod appeared on the approval of the Holy Trinity Community in Novouzensk [3] . At the opening of the monastery, 16 people lived in it along with the abbess [4] . The first abbess of the community, M. F. Nagibin, asked the Samara bishop Theophilos to petition the Holy Synod for the transformation of the community into a monastery [1] .
To achieve this goal, in 1891, a parish school was opened at the community, housed in a purpose-built building. After the opening, 30 girls studied in it, and in 1902 - 32. The school was closed in 1910 [4] .
Finally, on December 12, 1893, by decree of the Synod, the community was transformed into a communal monastery [3] .
The monastery was officially opened by Archimandrite Tikhon, Rector of the Upper Transfiguration Monastery of the Holy Cross, after which 15 sisters were tonsured as a nun, and 14 as a Riasophore [3] . By this time, 94 people were already living in the monastery [4] .
From March 1907 and until the monastery was closed, Mother Superior Magdalene (Lyubarskaya) was its abbess [4] .
In 1910, 168 people lived in the monastery, including one Superior Mother Superior, 38 Nuns , 46 Rassophore novices and 83 novices [4] .
The monastery was closed shortly after the establishment of Soviet power in the region. The exact closing date has not yet been set. The monastery buildings in the 1930s were demolished [5] .
Property
The monastery owned 420 acres of land, of which 350 were allocated by imperial permission from the state lands in 1886 and 1889, and 70 acres were allocated by the Novouzensk city society [3] .
The monastery territory was fenced from the north and east by stone walls, and from the southeast by a wooden-hedge fence. In the fence on the north side there were gates with three arches and lattice doors, and on the southeast side there were gates for constant economic entry [4] .
On the estate territory housed residential and office buildings. The sisters lived in two buildings and three outbuildings , while the rest of the buildings housed a refectory with a kitchen, a bakery, a kvassarna , prosphora , clothing repair shops [4] .
In a wooden house donated by the honorary citizen of Pokrovskaya Sloboda N. A. Ukhin, a monastery hospital was located [4] .
In the village of Nikolaevka there was a monastery farm : the nuns of the monastery were engaged in cultivation. Also, the monastery owned a two- windmill donated by the Novouzensk tradesman K. M. Milkin in 1891. There was a farmyard with two stables and a barn. [4]
The monastery had two courtyards . In 1881, one was equipped in Samara , the second in 1886 appeared in the Pokrovsky settlement in a courtyard donated by the peasant of this settlement, E. A. Kochegarova. In 1893, a two-story extension was made to the house on the courtyard, a prosphora with a Russian stove was located on the ground floor - the sisters of the monastery baked prosphora for all the churches of the Pokrovskaya Sloboda. The second housed accommodation. In 1906, the peasant woman of the Pokrovskaya Sloboda A.P. Kolyachenko donated her manor place along Novouzenskaya street with an area of 840 square fathoms - all the property was transported here from an earlier existing farmstead [4] .
Monastery Temples
The first temple in the monastery was a wooden single- throne house church in the name of the Holy Trinity , built in 1867. She was on the second floor of a two-story monastery housing. At the church there was a free-standing bell tower . In 1886, two new iconostasis were installed on both sides of the choir [3] .
In 1901, due to the dilapidated state, the church was abolished, the iconostases were transferred to the newly built in the same year stone two-altered church in the name of the Holy Trinity. The chapel , built at the expense of the merchant, N. E. Egorova, was consecrated in the name of the Assumption of the Mother of God . In 1902, the dome of the temple was painted with the faces of saints. On May 9, 1906, a three-tier gilded iconostasis was consecrated in the aisle, consecrated by Samara Bishop Konstantin on June 14, 1909 [3] ..
Patronal festivals were celebrated on May 25 in honor of the Holy Trinity in the main throne and on August 15 in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the aisle [3] .
Shrines
There were several especially venerated icons in the monastery:
- Filermsky icon of the Mother of God ;
- Kazan Icon of the Mother of God , which Bishop Guri blessed the monastery at the opening in 1893, and then donated it to the monastery;
- Albazin Icon of the Mother of God “The Word Flesh Be Fast” donated by Bishop Guriy in 1900
- a copy from the icon of the Mother of God “ Recovery of the Dead ”, the original of which was in the Rakovsky Convent [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Monasteries of the Samara Territory, 2002 , p. 62.
- ↑ Novouzensk (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 3, 2015. Archived May 10, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Monasteries of the Samara Territory, 2002 , p. 63.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Monasteries of the Samara Territory, 2002 , p. 64.
- ↑ Monasteries of the Samara Territory, 2002 , p. 65.
Literature
- Monasteries of the Samara Territory (XVI — XX centuries): Reference book / Comp. BC Block, K.A. Katrenko. - Samara: Samara. House of the Press, 2002 .-- S. 62-65. - 216 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-7350-0350-X .
- Russian monasteries and temples. Historical Encyclopedia / O. A. Platonov. - M .: Institute of Russian Civilization, 2010. - S. 374. - 688 p. - ISBN 978–5–902725–61–9.
Links
- Novouzensky Holy Trinity Monastery // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.