Desyatinniy Monastery (Veliky Novgorod)

1 Desyatiniy Lane, Veliky Novgorod.

The Desyatinniy Monastery was first mentioned in a 1327 chronicle. It was said there: "... Archbishop Moses built the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Desyatina."

In 1397, a Novgorod posadnik (eng.: mayor) Isak Onkifov constructed another Nativity Church, which was reconstructed in the 1670s. In 1413, Ivan Morozov built one more stone church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Step by step, the temple was transformed into an entire complex of monastery buildings including stone walls with cells, a chapel, and a refectory.

In 1809, a stone bell tower was built and crowned the whole complex. It was then rebuilt in 1903 and has survived till present time.

From 1970 to 1980, the cells and monastic premises were reconstructed.

The Desyatinniy Monastery was a convent since it was founded and remained one until its closing.

A part of St. Barabar's relics is kept there.

Elizabeth Lupalova, the Convent's hegumenia (abbess) Palladia Butakova (a Sergei Rachmaninoff's relative), and an aged nun named Maria Mikhailovna were buried in the lower tier of the Church.

The Church was reconstructed in 1975 and again from 1978 to 1983.

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