In addition to the main sight of Rostov the Great there are many places worth visiting in the city . One of such - the Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery . Here in Zachatievsky Cathedral houses the relics of Dimitry Rostovsky and St. . Jacob . Yakovlevskaya church with a smart refectory, the Dimitriev church built with the funds of Count Sheremetev, and a slender three-tiered bell tower make up the ensemble of the monastery . The territory is small but well-groomed, there is a source with the saint water . Monas surrounded by stone walls with four octagonal towers, one of which can be climbed to enjoy the opening view of the monastery itself, the lake and urban neighborhoods .

Once a poor, the monastery of St. James in the XVIII century became one of the richest monasteries in Russia. In ancient times, the monastery was called Zachatievsky - after the name of the main and only then a temple dedicated to the Conception of the Righteous Virgin Mary of the Most Holy Theotokos.

In 1923 the monastery was closed , five years later, the prohibition of worship in all the churches. The monks were expelled, the monastic property was partially transferred to the museum, but most of it was looted or destroyed. All the subsequent years the monastery was in desolation, its buildings were destroyed.

Nowadays the monastery has a monastery library, a retail, icon painting and restoration workshop, a sewing workshop (for sewing clothes for the brethren), a bakery, prosforny, carpentry workshop, repair shop transport, garage. There is a bathhouse and a laundry. The monastery runs a subsistence farm

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Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery is located on the outskirts of Rostov Veliky, on the bank of Lake Nero, at 10-15 min. walk from the Kremlin in the direction of Moscow

Address: Rostov Veliky, ul. Engels, 44.

Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery

Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery in winter

View of the Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery

Inside the Cathedral, Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery

Dimitrievsky Cathedral, Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery

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Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery - visiting card of Rostov the Great July 25, 2014

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Rostov Veliky attracts tourists by the fact that it is practically untouched, since the time of construction, monuments of ancient architecture that tell the history of Rus have been preserved. Among these is the Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery. A visit to Rostov without this church will not be complete. Be sure to visit the territory of the monastery. It is small, but here successfully, creating an entire architectural complex, there are Yakovlevskaya, Dimitrievskaya church, bell tower with three tiers, and also a small source with holy water .... Read full review