Svyatohirsk Monastery
The Monastery of the Holy Dormition of the Theotokos (Ukrainian Свято-Успенська Святогірська Лавра / Swjato-Uspenska Swjatohirska Lavra ) is a monastery on the right bank of the river Seversky Donets in the city sviatohirsk (Russian Sviatohirsk ) in the Donetsk Oblast in the Ukraine . It is located on a chalk mountain slope , which has been called the Holy Mountain ( swjataja gora ) since ancient times . The monastery belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate .
Formation and repeal
One version of the origin of the monastery is associated with Byzantine monks who fled persecution by the Byzantine imperial power during the icon controversy. Some of the monks settled in the Crimea, and the other part moved to the Don area with its tributaries of the northern Donets. Here the monks founded cave monasteries on the banks of the river, which have been preserved to this day. According to another version, the monastery was founded in the first half of the 13th century (1240) by Kiev monks who were persecuted by Batu Khan .
The first written mention of the monastery comes from the first half of the 16th century (1526). The monastery survived several raids and destruction by the Crimean Tatars in the 17th century. While the modern Russian state was created after this period, the Swjatohirsk Monastery in the south-west of the country took on the same status as the Trinity Monastery in Sergiev Posad in the north-east .
In 1787, during the reign of Catherine II , the monastery was closed. In 1844 it was restored by donations from the rural population and at the request of the local landowners Alexander Michajlowitsch and Tatiana Borisovna Potjomkin. Over the next 70 years, until 1914, the monastery became one of the most important in Russia. In 1922 the monastery was closed again and converted into a rest home.
Reopening after 1991
In 1992 the monastery was reopened and new monastery life began. On December 29, 2003, the ceremony for the final handover of the restored buildings and the return of the lands that belonged to the monastery took place. Today the monastery community consists of more than 100 people, which increases every year. Two Klausen have been restored in the monastery - the “All Saints' Hermitage” and the “Venerable Antonin and Feodossij's Hermitage”.
In the village of Bohorodytschne / Богородичне (Russian: Богородичное / Bogoroditschnoje), which is close to the monastery, the church is dedicated to the icon of Our Lady "Joy of all those who suffer" ("Всех скорбящих Радосте").
At the session of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on March 9, 2005, chaired by the Metropolitan of Kiev and All of Ukraine Vladimir , the monastery was granted the status of Lavra .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 59.9 ″ N , 37 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E