Novospassky Monastery (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / Krestyanskaya ploshchad, 10
 monastery, conjunto, Russian Orthodox Church, object of cultural heritage of federal importance (Russia)
The first monastery to be founded in the Moscow Kremlin in the early 14th century was affiliated with the Saviour (Spassky) church. Upon its removal to the left bank of the Moskva River in 1491, the cloister was renamed the New Saviour, to distinguish it from the original one in the Kremlin.

In the 16th century its wooden walls withstood attacks from the Crimean Tatars. In the 1640s Tsar Mikhail Romanov ordered the walls rebuilt of stone. Apart from the 18th-century bell-tower and the Sheremetev sepulchre in the church of the Sign, all the other buildings date from that period.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novospassky_Monastery
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Coordinates:   55°43'54"N   37°39'23"E
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