St. John of Rila Stavropigialny convent (Saint Petersburg)

 nunnery, byzantine, Russian Orthodox Church, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia), 1900s construction, 1890s construction

In 1899, Fr. John of Kronstadt was founded in his native village of St. John the Theologian Sarah female community. Soon on. John decided to have a communal courtyard in St. Petersburg.

Part of the land was purchased, and the station number 2 by Silin (now Ioannovsky) lane. between the embankment. Karpovka and Pesochnaya (now the Professora Popova) street was given a hereditary honorary citizen of Semyon Grigorievich Ramensky, chairman of the society of assistance to the poor and Vladimir Church Maloohtenskogo charity in the Church of St.. Mary Magdalene. May 8, 1899 on. John was consecrated place of the future monastery. Bookmark monastery September 16 of that year consecrated suffragan bishop Yamburg Boris. Built building designed by architect diocesan N Nikonov. The following year there appeared a small wooden chapel with a marquee completion, was designed by Nikolai Nikonov, consecrated in the name of st. John of Rila, patron saint of. John. Monitor the construction of the monastery. John blessed his spiritual daughter Anna Semyonovna Sergeyeva. October 27, 1901 she was tonsured a monk with the name of Angelina and became head of Sursky farmstead.

Construction of the main temple was dragged out of. John decided to build a small temple on the ground floor of the building. December 17, 1901 with the blessing of Metropolitan Anthony, the new church was blessed by Fr. In the name of St. John. John of Rila.
The monastery complex was built in just two years. In 1902, Angelina was awarded a nun pectoral Cross for his successful efforts to build the monastery. Father John turned to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Anthony asking to change the name Sura monastery in Saint Petersburg Convent of the Twelve Apostles. Archbishop Anthony suggested the name in honor of the monastery Ioannovsky patron father of st. John of Rila. Father John gratefully accepted.

In 1903, the community at Sura was turned into a monastery, and the courtyard in a separate dwelling. Mother Angelina was appointed abbess.
The main church of the monastery church of the Apostles motley array occupies two upper floors of the temple complex. The church was consecrated December 17, 1902 by Metropolitan Anthony, assisted by Fr. John of Kronstadt. Right-side-chapel of Our Lady of Kazan was consecrated April 24, 1903 Bishop Gdov Constantine, it is October 14th of that year left consecrated in the name of Venerable. Andrew of Crete and Mary.

Five cupolas of the cathedral and bell tower were covered with multicolored tiles. The windows were stained glass windows with images of the apostles of the PK and FK Veniga Platonov. Image for the two-tiered oak iconostasis wrote FK Platonov, others - Mikhail Nesterov. The altar and pristol were made of white marble.

In 1903, at Pesochnaya (now the Professora Popova) street, construction was completed five-story building of the clergy. Next in 1907-1908. the building of the infirmary, workshops, print shops and cells for 200 nurses. At the same time in the basement of the project NN Nikonov was a small shrine, lined with white Italian marble. Marble iconostasis was made for her in the studio of A. Barinov. Image also wrote FK Platonov. Funds for the construction of the temple-tomb donated Anna Mandelstam Lezhoeva. In 1907 she became nuns of the monastery, was tonsured with the name John, and performed the duties of treasurer of the monastery.

Father John liked to call himself a "grace of God Ioann builder of the monastery." And this is the place he chose for his resting place by contacting Metropolitan Anthony, with a special petition about it. December 15, 1904, Nicholas II wrote in his report: "Of course, the desire of the honorable. John Sergiev will be fulfilled. " December 20, 1908 Father John died. December 21, 1908, Metropolitan Anthony of blessed tomb in a chapel in the name of the prophet. Elijah and benefits. Tsar. Theodora - the names of the heavenly patron of the parents. John. December 23 here in the white marble tomb and buried my father.

On the second floor under the altar of the main temple of the rooms remained. John. They remained intact until the closing of the monastery. When the monastery was revived, the whole situation was restored by surviving description. Now in these areas are patriarchal chambers.
Rector of the church in 1904 was Fr John N. Ornatskii. Since January 1909 the monastery became a first-rate.
Cemetery at the monastery was not planned. When my mother asked about Angelina on. John, he replied: "My sisters do not need a cemetery, they will scatter like birds in the world." Sad prophecy came true ...
May 16 1910 the laying of the stone chapel at the corner of the embankment. Karpovka and Ioann Lane. Chapel of the project of N. Nikonov.

In autumn 1915 in the monastery garden was built on a small nameless stone chapel. October 24, 1915 in the chapel were interred the body of princes AA Shcherbatov, who died April 5, and GS Vasilchikova, who died July 7. Soon, next to the chapel were interred the body of Prince Gorchakov, AK and St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir A. Adlerberg graph. The surviving chapel was restored in the 1990s.

The monastery had a shelter for girls, a hospital and icon-painting workshop, operated Society in memory of. John, which contained a hospice.

After the decree on the liquidation of the monasteries, the monastery was closed. In 1919, the sisters organized a women's labor community Karpovsky, chairwoman was proclaimed mother Angelina. At that time, acted in the refectory of the newly consecrated Church of St. Nicholas. In 1922 my mother Angelina was taken under house arrest on charges of hiding church valuables.
Finally, the monastery was abolished 15-17 November 1923 At this time, there lived another 60 nuns. The church was given to the club, and other buildings in 1926 gave the State Scientific Institute of amelioration. Part of the nurses got permission to live in the attic of the building and in the basement of the monastery, and the rest spread over different locations.

March 1, 1926 was a walled entrance to the tomb of. John, his grave was later secretly concreted. Mother Angelina exercised spiritual leadership of the sisters until his death. Shortly before her death she took schema. February 8, 1927 she was buried at St. Nicholas cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
January 31, 1931, was arrested in April of that year shot confessor Archimandrite John A. James (Arzhanovsky) to minister to arrest the nuns. Archpriest Igor Ornatskii was arrested in 1936 and sentenced to five years in concentration camps and died in the camp.

February 18, 1932 were arrested and sent into exile all the nuns, who continued to live at the monastery. Arrested and sisters who lived in communities, municipalities in urban apartments.

In Soviet times the building was occupied by different institutions: a dormitory, a sewing shop, apartment, theater, DOSAAF, a computer center. Over the years, there were over twenty different organizations. But even at that time believers secretly prayed near the outer wall of the monastery, the tomb of basement window. In the basement of the building. in place to venerate religious, knocked a cross.

In 1989 the monastery was returned to the Diocese. It housed the monastery courtyard Pühtitsa, which began the restoration of the temple.
November 1, 1989 was re-consecrated the church with burial lower.

The Local Council of June 7, 1990, Alexis chose Bishop Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, adopted a resolution on the canonization of Fr John Ilich Sergiev (of Kronstadt). June 14th His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II arrived in St. Petersburg, to make the glorification of John of Kronstadt. The upper church has been restored. A bottom is too small - the celebration held in the open air at the walls of the monastery.

October 30, 1990 was raised by the first cross on the dome of the cathedral of the Twelve Apostles. In the temple-tomb was restored according to old photographs and iconostasis headstone over the grave of Fr. John.
July 12, 1991, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II consecrated the upper church. At the same time was consecrated and raised a cross on the main dome of the cathedral.
December 25, 1991 the monastery became known as St. John Stavropigialny. October 29, 1997 the remains of the shiigumenii Angelina moved to the tomb of St. rights. John of Kronstadt.
At present, the monastery returned to all the historic buildings. The monastery operates a Sunday school, monastery shops, a hotel for pilgrims.
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Built in 1900-1901 on the project N.N.Nikonova.Stil: psevdovizantiysky.
St. John the convent founded in 1900 by an outstanding man of prayer, miracle worker and sympathizer of the Russian Land, archpriest of the cathedral of Kronstadt St. Andrew's father John Ilich Sergiev (of Kronstadt dubbed the nation).

The monastery was designed as a courtyard of St. John the Theological female community, created by John Sergiev in his native village of Sura.
May 8, 1900 was consecrated place for the monastery;
September 16 of that year made it a bookmark.
In the period from 1903 to 1908 was completed the construction of a five-storey house for clergy who wish to live in the monastery infirmary building, icon painting and handicrafts workshops and cells, in the basement of the church erected a church-shrine

Soon after the death of the organizer of the monastery, in January 1909, the Holy Synod issued a rescript dated 12 January of that year, Emperor Nicholas II to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg Anthony (Vadkovskii) and issued pursuant to the Synod of the definition thereof on January 15, which, in particular, "John the Theologian in St. Petersburg, a convent, now rests in any body of the deceased" was built in a first class degree.

After the capture in 1922 of the diocesan administration in Petrograd renovationism supporters, the community of the monastery joined the so-called Petrograd autocephaly, headed by Archbishop Alex after the link (Simansky) was Bishop Nicholas (Yarushevich). After the arrest and exile of the latter, May 12, 1923, under pressure from the authorities, movable and immovable property of the monastery was transferred Renovationist community (twenty) on May 19, the same year Gubernia Executive Committee decided to eliminate the monastery, which was carried out only in November (due to protests Renovationist guide).
The buildings of the monastery passed reclamation technical school, and in March 1926 godabyl walled entrance to the tomb of his father Ioanna.ochti all the nuns were in the early 30s were arrested and sentenced to exile in Kazakhstan.

In November 1989, handed over to the diocese and the monastery is open as Pühtitsa yard of the monastery, 1 November, the birthday of his father John, was consecrated the lower church of St. John of Rila.
July 12, 1991, the feast day, Patriarch Alexy II was consecrated the upper church of the Twelve Apostles.
Stavropigialny is from December 25, 1991.
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