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SDIM6302 Tourists Gathered outside the Holy Gate under the Church of Saints Peter and Paul (1679), Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (Церковь Петра и Павла в Иосифо-Волоколамском монастыре)

Volokolamsk Raion, Moscow Oblast

 

The monastery was repurposed in the 1920s, and returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1990s.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Volokolamsk_Monastery

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