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name=Valaam Monastery<br> of the Transfiguration of the Savior|jurisdiction=[[Church of Russia]]<br>Stavropegic status([[Stavropegial]])|

superior=Abbot<br> [[Archimandrite|Archim.]] Pankraty (Zherdev)||size= about ~200 monks|hq= Valaam Island|language= Slavonic|

website=[http://www.valaam.ru/en/ Official website]

'''Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior''', more popularly '''Valaam Monastery''' is a [[monastery]] of the [[Church of Russia]] located in Karelia in northwestern Russia on the island of Valaam in Lake Ladoga. The monastery was an outpost of evangelism in the north of Russia. In the 1790s the monastery provided the group of eight missionaries that was sent to Alaska in the North American northwest to evangelize the natives for Orthodox Christianity. This group of [[monasticism|monastics]] included [[Herman of Alaska|St Herman]] and [[Juvenaly of Alaska|St Juvenaly]].

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valaam_Monastery Wikipedia: Valaam Monastery]*[http://www.valaam.ru/en/history/ Valaam Monastery: Cloister History]*[http://nordictravel.ru/page/valaam.html Map of Valaam Island]

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