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Monastery and nature
New Jerusalem Monastery in a frame of autumn nature..In the middle of the 17th century, Patriarch Nikon decided that Russia should have its own Jerusalem and, having bought the land around the large village of Voskresensky (now the Moscow city of Istra), founded a monastery in 1656..Already in 1658, the main temple of the monastery was laid - the magnificent Resurrection Cathedral, whose project was created in the image and likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. A monastery of Patriarch Nikon is being built on the banks of the Jordan..A few years later, Patriarch Nikon fell into disgrace, and the government ceased to support the monastery. In the following centuries, it experienced different times: some kings tried to reduce funding, while others, on the contrary, pledged a lot of money. By the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery was one of the richest in Russia..During the Great Patriotic War in 1941, the Germans blew up the monastery, after the war it was almost completely rebuilt. Full restoration completed in 2016
Monastery and nature
New Jerusalem Monastery in a frame of autumn nature..In the middle of the 17th century, Patriarch Nikon decided that Russia should have its own Jerusalem and, having bought the land around the large village of Voskresensky (now the Moscow city of Istra), founded a monastery in 1656..Already in 1658, the main temple of the monastery was laid - the magnificent Resurrection Cathedral, whose project was created in the image and likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. A monastery of Patriarch Nikon is being built on the banks of the Jordan..A few years later, Patriarch Nikon fell into disgrace, and the government ceased to support the monastery. In the following centuries, it experienced different times: some kings tried to reduce funding, while others, on the contrary, pledged a lot of money. By the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery was one of the richest in Russia..During the Great Patriotic War in 1941, the Germans blew up the monastery, after the war it was almost completely rebuilt. Full restoration completed in 2016