Svyato-Nikolsky Monastery (Verkhoturye, Siberia).This women’s monastery was built between 1905
Svyato-Nikolsky Monastery (Verkhoturye, Siberia).This women’s monastery was built between 1905 – 1913 for the 300thanniversary celebrations of the Romanovs. Tsar Nicholas II hadplanned to come to the cathedral’s opening ceremony, but the visitwas cancelled. Inside the cathedral are the relics of 17th-centurySt. Simeon of Verkhoturye (last photo for this reason, the monastery has becomean important centre of pilgrimage. -- source link
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