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Holy Dormition Monastery of Sviyazhsk

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'''Holy Dormition Monastery of Sviyazhsk''' is a [[monastery]] for [[monk|men]] now on the island of Sviyazhsk, located at the confluence of the Volga and Sviyaga Rivers upstream from the city of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. The monastery was established in mid sixteenth century. It became a major institution associated with Christianity in the [[Diocese of Kazan]]. After being severely damaged during the Soviet time, restoration of the monastery and its dependency, the St. John the Forerunner [[Convent]], has been in progress since 1997.
==History==
[[Image:SviyazhskIslandNear97.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Sviyazhsk Island and Village - The first Christian town in the lands of Kazan - July1997]]
Dormition Monastery was founded by the [[Archimandrite]] German (Sadyrev-Polevoy) in 1555 at the fortress of Sviyazhsk. Sviyazhsk was the base from which Ivan IV staged his final and successful assault on the khanate of Kazan in 1551. Arch. German was canonized in 1595. The monastery prospered as the adjacent town of Sviyazhsk became the chief town of the province as reflected in the name of the [[Diocese of Kazan|Diocese of Kazan and Sviyazhsk]]. While the initial economic significance of the town declined in the following years the religious importance of the monastery grew during the following centuries. By the mid eighteenth century the monastery was the most wealthy and influential in the Kazan [[diocese]].
[[Image:SviyazhskIslandNear97.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Sviyazhsk Island and Village - The first Christian town in the lans of Kazan - July1997]]
During the years of Bolshevik rule, the monastery was closed and initially turned into a forced labor camp. Later, it was used as a detention camp for juvenile criminals. Subsequently, the monastery was used as a psycho-neurological clinic until 1993. In 1997, the monastery property was returned to the Church of Russia.
===Church of St. Nicholas===
[[Image:SNicholasDormMonSviya97.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Church of St. Nicholas, Dormition Monastery, Diocese of Kazan]]
The oldest [[church]] on the Dormition Monastery grounds is the Church of St. Nicholas. This church was built during the years 1555 and 1556 by a team of builders from Pskov led by Ivan Shyryay, The church was built out of limestone and includes the old [[cell]] used by St. German. A 138 foot (43 meters) high bell tower was built in the seventeenth century.
===Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos===
[[Image:DormitionCathDormMon97Sviya.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, Dormition Monastery]]
Construction of the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos was begun in 1556 and continued until 1560, also by the team of craftsmen from Pskov led by Postnik Yakov and Ivan Shyryay. A number of changes were made to the [[cathedral]] over the following centuries. In the seventeenth century the [[refectory]] was added to the cathedral. The original design of the cathedral used a cylindrical drum and helmet shaped dome. In the eighteenth century, this combination was replaced by an octahedronical drum and a cupola in the Ukrainian baroque style. A high porch was added to the refectory in the nineteenth century.
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