“Due to certain circumstances,” the parish community was forced to leave its previous church, named for the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, thus the Liturgy was celebrated in the Holy Dormition Church, which was closed by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s.
On this day, the Synaxis of the Saints of Diveyevo Monastery, we present a collection of photographs and pictures of this extraordinary spiritual center, founded in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region.
The St. Lucian Hermitage was founded in 1654 by St. Lucian of Alexandrov. The monastery soon flourished and enjoyed royal patronage over the centuries.
The attack is currently under police investigation.
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the completion of the first Orthodox diaspora church.