Back to photostream

New Jerusalem Monastery

The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery is a historically stavropegic male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Istra, Moscow region..The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon, according to which the complex of holy places of Palestine was to be recreated near Moscow..In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, miners of the German fascist SS division "Reich" blew up the Resurrection Cathedral. Many architectural monuments were destroyed..The restoration of the monastery, which is the only successful attempt to recreate the image of the Holy Land, was completed at the end of 2016..In the Resurrection Cathedral, as in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, there are three main shrines of Christians:.Golgotha is a small rock where Christ was crucified (in Greek the word “Golgotha” means a frontal place).Cuvuclia - a small chapel with the Holy Sepulcher, the burial place of Christ.Temple of the Resurrection of the Savior, the place of the life-bearing resurrection of Jesus Christ..Golgotha, the place of the crucifixion of Christ, is located on the second tier of the temple; a staircase to the right of the main entrance leads to it. In a small room there is a cross, made in Jerusalem and the same size as the Jerusalem Cross of God. A stone with a crack is also installed here, imitating a rock that broke at the time of the Savior's death, when the blood of Christ was shed on it.

54,919 views
1,422 faves
503 comments
Uploaded on October 31, 2018
Taken on October 16, 2018