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The address of the Simonov Monastery: Moscow, Vostochnaya st., 4.
Getting to the Simonov Monastery is easy. Metro Avtozavodskaya (last car from the center). Then you go along Masterkova Street, after crossing with Leninskaya Sloboda Street, you also go straight ahead along Vostochnaya Street. And ahead on the left you see the Salt Tower of the Simonov Monastery.
The monastery was founded in 1370 south of Moscow on the lands of the boyar Stepan Vasilyevich Khovrin. Becoming a monk, Stepan Vasilyevich received the name Simon, hence the name of the monastery.
The monastery was one of the most revered in Russia. But in 1920 he was abolished. And in 1930, some of the buildings were completely blown up. And in their place they erected a recreation center ZIL. And in the other part they arranged some kind of production.
The history of the monastery is rich. Yes, everything is simple: type in any search engine "Simonov Monastery" - and hundreds of links open with an abundance of historical facts. There's enough for ten gears.
I want to talk about something else. Here, it would seem - well, what is there to see? Few of the buildings have survived. One church is the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. Of the walls - only the southern one, a fragment of the western one and a small part of the eastern one. Three towers.
Restoration? Well, so ... it’s neither shaky, nor rolls ... THEY CAN BE OFFENDED ABOUT ANY WAY ...
And still.
Not a single monastery evoked such emotions in me as Simonov did. I'll try to explain.
You know, the monks were not meek lambs, and along with church books and a rosary, they just as skillfully held a sword in their hands when it came to the freedom of the country. And monasteries were by no means always quiet cloisters, but more often powerful fortresses.
And in the Simonov Monastery... It has it... The spirit of the people, the spirit of recalcitrant and unconquered Russia... He, this spirit is in every brick, it flows from every crack in the walls of the monastery towers...
And it’s not for nothing that the monks Oslyabya and Peresvet are buried in the Simonov Monastery ... Yes, yes, the same heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo ...
Let us clarify, however, that their burial is located not far from the current one ... in Stary Simonovo, this is on Vostochnaya Street, 6, on the territory of the Dynamo plant, in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and you can freely go to it ...
So… you are standing in the middle of seemingly destroyed buildings…
And you understand that, by and large, this is not the main thing ... important, but not the main thing ...
The spirit... that's as long as it is...
After all, there is the Simonov Monastery ...
And they besieged it, and destroyed it, and robbed it, and blew it up ...
A - it's worth it! The Simonov Monastery stands!
Do you remember Pushkin's lines? " Here is the Russian spirit, here it smells of Russia ... ":
The Simonov Monastery stands!
As a symbol of Russia.
And will stand.
From now on and forever.
Contacts of the Simonov Monastery:
115280, Moscow, st. Vostochnaya, d. 4.
This monastery was once one of the most powerful and revered not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia. It was founded by the nephew and disciple of Sergius of Radonezh, St. Theodore, from its walls came St. Kirill Belozersky, Metropolitan Jonah, Patriarch Joseph and many, many others. Sergius of Radonezh himself repeatedly visited here, and not only visited, but also dug a pond with his own hands on the territory of the monastery. It would seem that with such and such a history, the monastery should have had a long and glorious history: but less than 10 years after its foundation, oddities began to happen to it, and the further - the more.
The first strange story happened about 10 years after its foundation: in 1379, without any reason, the monastery was moved to a new location. At the same time, the new place was very close, a few hundred meters from the old one, and the current church, buildings, and a pond were preserved on the old one. The question is - why? History is silent about this, but the locals know the reason. The fact is that in 1380 the entire old territory of the monastery turned into a huge cemetery, and it became impossible to farm on it. It was here that the Russian soldiers who died in the Battle of Kulikovo, hundreds and thousands of people, were buried. Here the second oddity is immediately revealed: excuse me, but why here? After all, Kulikovo field is located in the Tula province, at that time - far away! But the fact remains: no burials were found on the Kulikovo field, but they are here, in the Staro-Simonov Monastery. Around the ancient Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, the density of burials is so high that when they tried to dig a cellar 15 years ago, several cubic meters of human bones were taken out of the ground, and all the skeletons belonged to young men with excellent teeth. The extracted bones were later collected in a large box and buried behind the altar of the church, and a large wooden cross was placed at the site of the new burial. You may ask why I think that it is those who died in the Battle of Kulikovo that are buried in Staro-Simonovo? Yes, because in the old church of the Nativity of the Virgin there is also a burial place.
This is the grave of the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo, Peresvet and Oslyabi.
And here comes the third oddity: there is no consensus on how they got here. According to some sources, it turns out that this grave has been revered since those very times. According to others, the burial was discovered either in the 15th century, or in the 18th. According to others, no one is buried under this canopy at all, and the real burial is in the crypt of the Novo-Simonov Monastery, and only one thing no one denies: that Peresvet and Oslyabya really lie on the territory of the Simonov Monastery, old or new.
Near the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin there is another interesting artifact:
And on the fence - another:
I think comments are unnecessary here. Everything, absolutely everything here speaks of the connection of this place with the Battle of Kulikovo.
And now let's go to the territory of the Novo-Simonov Monastery.
Novo-Simonov Monastery now looks like after the bombing. Inner area:
Refectory:
Monastery dryer:
In Soviet times, most of the territory was taken away from the monastery along this line and a recreation center ZiL was built on it:
The passage to almost the entire territory of the monastery is closed, you can only get into the surviving refectory temple. There, of course, you can’t take pictures - but since there is no prohibition in a conspicuous place, but they told me about it late, I managed to take some pictures on my mobile phone.
As in the old territory, there is also one large grave here. The necropolis starts right from the entrance and goes deep down. This is what the second floor looks like:
You can leave this room, go through another (there are the same nameless tombstones) and go down the stairs (here you also need to be careful, and here are the graves) down. There is a crypt, obviously very respected and well-groomed. Also unsigned. In general, imagine the scale: if such a thing has been preserved here, then what was on the territory alienated under the Palace of Culture, and I’m generally silent about the old one! On the wall there is a list of those buried in the local necropolis: lay people, monks, monks - they all lie together, and no one knows who lies where. The question arises - on what sources is the list based? And here, too, is silence. It is only known that representatives of such famous and ancient families as the Muravyovs, Naryshkins, Tatishchevs, Shakhovskys and many, many others lie here.
Here's more of the interior:
Tower and wall fragment:
Something incomprehensible near the wall:
And another tower:
View from the preserved fortress wall:
The monastery was the most powerful Moscow fortress, and it is unlikely that any of the sane people of that time did not realize this. But in 1771, another oddity that did not climb into any gates: Catherine the Second, one of the smartest women in history, abolished this monastery, and instead of the monastery, she arranged ... a plague isolator. Why?! What were the reasons to destroy a flourishing monastery with an incredible history? History is silent about this, but there is a nuance here: insulators of this kind, at the end of the action, were often burned out, destroying everything that could carry the infection. Maybe this is the reason?
The monastery was revived only in 1795 thanks to the petition of Alexei Musin-Pushkin. The same one, with the light hand of which the "Lay of Igor's Campaign" was introduced into use.
During the French invasion, the monastery was once again ruined, but quickly revived and began to flourish again. In 1839, a bell tower was built here, 9 meters higher than the bell tower of Ivan the Great, which clearly explains the status of the monastery at that time. But then the communists came to power and did something that no one had been able to do before: they physically destroyed most of the monastery, and on this the history of the fortress can be considered completed. But what were the tsars, communists and historians struggling with all this time? What was there such that even now the richest Russian Orthodox Church does not risk restoring it?
I don't think we will ever know about it. One can, of course, assume that the matter is in the burials in the old territory - you never know, someone will notice the strange similarity of the names of the Kulikovo field and Moscow Kulishki, or wonder why tens of thousands of corpses were suddenly not buried at the battle site, but were transported for hundreds kilometers in the heat in the Simonov Monastery?
But now I will show you the last oddity - and it seems to be the most inexplicable in this whole story. The gates of the monastery now look like this:
This is something that is never found on the gates of Orthodox monasteries - the symbol of the Rose, an ancient Templar sign.
In 1405, a stone cathedral church was built in the monastery in the name of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos, the construction of which began in 1379.
In 1476, the dome of the cathedral was badly damaged by a lightning strike, so at the end of the 15th century the temple was rebuilt by an unknown Italian architect.
At the end of the 17th century, the cathedral was painted by an artel of Moscow royal masters.
At the same time, a carved gilded iconostasis was made, in which was the main relic of the monastery - the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God, which St. Sergius of Radonezh blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the Battle of Kulikovo.
A golden cross, showered with diamonds and emeralds, was also kept here - a gift from Princess Maria Alekseevna.
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The old towers and walls of the monastery were built in the 16th century.
It is believed that they were erected by the “sovereign master” Fedor Savelyevich Kon, the builder of the Smolensk Kremlin.
The circumference of the monastery walls was 825 m, height - 7 m.
Of the surviving towers, the corner tower "Dulo" stands out,
crowned with a high tent with a two-tier watchtower.
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Fortified under Boris Godunov, the monastery repulsed the attack of the Crimean Khan of Gaza II Giray in 1591.
Simonov Monastery repeatedly served as a shield of Moscow against enemies.
During the long years of its existence, the Simonov Monastery more than once took upon itself the onslaught of enemy hordes, was subjected to Tatar raids, during the Time of Troubles it was devastated and destroyed almost to the ground.
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Two other surviving towers - the five-sided Blacksmith's Tower and the round Salt Tower - were built in the 1640s, when the monastery's defensive structures, which had suffered during the Time of Troubles, were being rebuilt.
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The new refectory of the Simonov Monastery became one of the most significant buildings of the late 17th century.
The lavishly decorated building was brightly painted "chessboard" - a style of painting that imitates faceted stonework.
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The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at the refectory was built in 1700 at the expense of Princess Maria Alekseevna, sister of Peter I.
In the 19th century, two aisles were added to it.
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In former times, the monastery was one of the most famous and revered in Russia: a huge number of people flocked here, as well as large financial contributions.
The Simonov Monastery was immortalized by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin:
“... the most pleasant place for me is the place on which the gloomy, Gothic towers of the Simonov Monastery rise. Standing on this mountain, you see on the right side almost all of Moscow, this terrible mass of houses and churches, which appears to the eyes in the form of a majestic amphitheater: a magnificent picture, especially when the sun shines on it, when its evening rays blaze on countless golden domes, on countless crosses ascending to heaven! Below are fat, densely green flowering meadows, and behind them, on yellow sands, a bright river flows, agitated by the light oars of fishing boats or rustling under the helm of heavy plows that float from the most fruitful countries of the Russian Empire and endow greedy Moscow with bread.
Farther away, in the dense greenery of ancient elms, the golden-domed Danilov Monastery shines; still farther, almost at the edge of the horizon, the Sparrow Hills turn blue. On the left side, you can see vast fields covered with bread, forests, three or four villages, and in the distance the village of Kolomenskoye with its high palace.
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The monastery was especially loved by Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich (the elder brother of Peter I), who had his own cell here for solitude.
In 1771, the monastery was abolished by Catherine II and, on the occasion of the plague epidemic that had spread at that time, it was turned into a plague isolation ward.
Only in 1795 was it restored to its original quality by the petition of Count Alexei Musin-Pushkin.
During the Patriotic War of 1812, the Simonov Monastery was ravaged by the French. After the liberation of Moscow, the brethren returned to the monastery.
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The monastery bell tower was also famous throughout Moscow.
Yes, and the bell ringing, judging by the annals, was outstanding in that bell tower.
So, in the Nikon Chronicle there is a special article "On Bells", which speaks of a strong and wonderful bell ringing,
coming, according to some, from the cathedral bells of the Kremlin, and according to others, from the bells of the Simonov Monastery.
And when it fell into disrepair by the 19th century, the famous architect Konstantin Ton (the creator of the Russian-Byzantine style in Moscow architecture) erected a new one in 1839 above the northern gates of the monastery.
Her cross became the highest point in Moscow (99.6 meters).
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On the second tier of the bell tower were the churches of John, Patriarch of Constantinople, and St. Alexander Nevsky,
on the third - a belfry with bells (the largest of them weighed 16 tons),
on the fourth - hours,
on the fifth - exit to the head of the bell tower.
This majestic building was built at the expense of the Moscow merchant Ivan Ignatiev.
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By 1917, there were six churches with eleven altars on the territory of the monastery:
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, consecrated in 1405;
refectory church in the name of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God (formerly in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh);
Church of St. Alexander Svirsky;
the Church of the Origin of the Honest Trees, located above the western gate;
church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - above the eastern gates;
Church in the name of John, Patriarch of Tsaregrad,
and the church of st. Prince Alexander Nevsky - in the second tier of the bell tower.
Only own photographs were used - date of shooting 26.04.2010 and 21.03.15
M. "Avtozavodskaya"
Address: East street, 6.
The Simonov Monastery was founded in 1370 by St. Theodore, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh. It got its name from the name of the monk Simon (in the world of the boyar Khovrin), on whose lands it was built.
In 1380, in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, the remains of the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo, monks Peresvet and Oslyaby, were buried.
The Simonov Monastery played an important role in the defense of the southern approaches to Moscow. Perhaps none of the guardian monasteries had such powerful fortifications. He repeatedly had to withstand attacks, first by the Tatar hordes, and then by the Polish-Lithuanian invaders.
In the XVI century. Maxim Grek lived and wrote his compositions here. The architectural ensemble of the monastery was impressive. Suffice it to say that there were 6 churches in the Simonovsky Monastery. The main attractions of the monastery were the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, built in 1389-1405, and a five-tiered bell tower over 94 meters high, built in 1839 according to the project of the architect K.A.Ton. The territory of the monastery was surrounded by a wall with five towers.
There was a large necropolis in the Simonov Monastery. S.V. Khovrin and many Khovrin-Golovins, the son of Dmitry Donskoy Konstantin (1430) were buried in the cathedral.
The cemetery was located near the eastern fence, behind the Assumption Cathedral and the Tikhvin Church. There were buried: the writer S.T. Aksakov (1859) with his relatives, composer A.A. Alyabiev (1851) with relatives, poet D.V. Venevitinov (1827) with his relatives (related to A.S. Pushkin), A.S. Pushkin’s uncle N.L. Pushkin (1821), collector A.P. Bakhrushin (1904) and many other outstanding figures of our history and culture.
The Simonov Monastery was closed in 1923, the vacated monastery premises were given over to housing for the workers of Simonovskaya Sloboda. The Simonov Monastery was gradually destroyed. The last temple was closed in May 1929. The monuments at the monastery cemetery were preserved until November 1928, then the necropolis was demolished, and a square was laid out in its place.
In 1930, the walls of the monastery, as well as five of its six churches, were blown up. In subsequent years, the Palace of Culture of the ZIL plant was built on its territory.
Only three southern towers remained from the fortifications of the monastery, connected by the rest of the wall. Among the survivors is the corner tower "Dulo", built in the 16th century. the famous architect Fyodor Kon, the builder of the fortifications of the Moscow White City. The Church of the Tikhvin Mother of God, built in 1677, the refectory of the monastery, built in 1680, as well as a number of outbuildings survived, although they were badly damaged.
Currently, the Church of the Tikhvin Mother of God has been handed over to believers. An Orthodox community of the deaf and hard of hearing was formed here.
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin ("in Stary Simonov") has also been preserved, which in the 1930s ended up on the territory of the Dynamo plant and was used as production premises. Currently, the church, the current building of which was built in 1509, has been restored and returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, the graves of Peresvet and Oslyabi have been restored.
in Stary Simonov
Church of the Nativity website
The current stone church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Stary Simonov was built in 1510. There is a legend that the church was built by Aleviz Novy, but it has not been confirmed by chronicle data.
In the XVIII century. burials of the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo were discovered near the church.
In 1785-1787, instead of wooden ones, a stone refectory and a bell tower were built, in 1849-1855. they have been rebuilt. There are two chapels in the refectory: St. Nicholas and St. Sergius.
In 1870, a cast-iron tombstone of the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo, Alexander Peresvet and Andrey (Rodion) Oslyabi, was installed in the Sergievsky side-altar.
In 1928 the church was closed.
In 1932, the bell tower was demolished, the cast-iron tombstone of the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo was scrapped. Subsequently, during the expansion of the Dynamo plant, the church ended up on the territory of the enterprise. Access to the temple was closed. The compressor shop of the Dynamo plant was located in the church building - a powerful motor was dug into the floor of the church, which, while working, shook the walls. As a result, the church was on the verge of destruction.
In 1989 the church was handed over to believers.
In 2006, the bell tower was restored, on which the bell "Peresvet" (2200 kg) was placed, received as a gift from the governor of the Bryansk region, the homeland of the heroes-monks Peresvet and Oslyaby. In the twentieth century they were numbered among the saints.
Plant "Dynamo" named after Kirov (Leninskaya Sloboda street, 26)
The Moscow plant "Dynamo" named after S.M. Kirov was one of the largest electrical engineering enterprises in the USSR. It produced electric motors and equipment for electric urban transport, crane-lifting devices, excavators, rolling mills, marine vessels, etc. Some of the products were exported abroad.
The plant was founded in 1897 on the basis of a Belgian joint-stock company, it was the Russian division of the American company Westinghouse. At first it was called the Central Electric Society in Moscow. Produced semi-handicraft electrical equipment according to foreign technical documentation.
By 1932, the plant produced the first in the USSR traction electric motors for electric locomotives, and on November 6, the first Soviet-designed electric locomotive, Vladimir Lenin (VL19), was built.
During the Great Patriotic War, he produced weapons and repaired tanks. The main technological processes were mechanized and automated: there were more than 100 conveyor and production lines with a total length of over 3.5 km.
Since 2009, the plant does not exist. Production has ceased, the premises are being scrapped or rented out. Basically, there are car services. Part of the equipment has been moved to sites in other cities.
Simonov Monastery, view from the Moskva River
 Salt tower. It was built in the 1640s, when the monastery fence, destroyed in the Time of Troubles, was being rebuilt. The octagonal tent of the tower with rumored windows rests on an intermediate octagon cut by arches. The tent ends with a two-tier observation tower. |
 Blacksmith tower. |
 Tower "Dulo". Built in the 16th century. the famous architect Fyodor Kon, the builder of the fortifications of the Moscow White City. |
 The Old Refectory. Built in 1485. One of the oldest buildings in Moscow. |
 The building of the refectory with the Tikhvin Church was built by Parfen Petrov in 1680. However, the style of the master's work did not satisfy the customer, and three years later the refectory was rebuilt under the guidance of the famous architect Osip Startsev. The lower part of the building has a much older history: fragments of a building dating back to the end of the 15th century were found in the basement of the temple. The building, built by Osip Startsev, has the form of "Moscow Baroque". The western facade of the refectory, decorated with a figured stepped pediment, looks especially picturesque. In the middle of the XIX century. two chapels were added to the church, then, in 1840, the church was re-consecrated in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. |
 Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God |
 Dryer or Malting. It was intended for storing food supplies and drying malt and grain. The building was built simultaneously with the refectory chamber by the architect Parfen Potapov and was originally surrounded by a gallery on pillars. On the second and third floors there are large pillarless halls. |
 A stone in the place where the monastery's holy well was. |
 Remains of old graves and the entrance to the church. |
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salt tower |
 Fragment of the monastery wall |
 Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God |
 Recesses in the monastery walls |
Decoration of platbands of the windows of the Church of Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God |
Gate of the Simonov Monastery |
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Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God |
 blacksmith tower |
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 Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God |
Stained glass windows in the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God |
 Stones at the base of the tower "Dulo" |
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 Ancient tombstones that were used as a curb stone in Soviet times |
Poems condemning the desecration of ancestral graves |
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Vostochnaya st., 6. Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Stary Simonov |
 Vostochnaya st., 6. Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Stary Simonov. |
 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
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 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, bell tower |
Recreated tombstone of Peresvet and Oslyaby. Sculptor V.M.Klykov, 1988 |
 Instead of the destroyed bell tower, a small stone belfry was installed in 1991, and the restoration of the bell tower was completed only by 2006.
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 church building |
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The Simonov Monastery was previously one of the largest monasteries in the capital, and today it is the residence of the Patriarch. On its territory there is a society of hearing-impaired Christians - the only one in the world, so pilgrims who have hearing problems are often sent here.
Initially, the monastery, founded in the second half of the 14th century, was located in a different place, but at the end of the century it was moved. Interestingly, the remains of Andrei Olyabi and Alexander Peresvet, the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo, were found on the territory of the old Simonov Monastery, which are still preserved in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
As for the Simonov Monastery, the history of the monastery was rich in events: Sergius of Radonezh always stayed here during his visits to the capital, Peter the Great's brother Fyodor Alekseevich had his own cell; it is believed that the main character of the story "Poor Lisa" by the sentimentalist Nikolai Karamzin drowned herself in the pond near this monastery. There were also black pages in its history: in the 18th century the monastery was turned into a plague isolation ward, and in the thirties of the 20th century it was closed, demolishing five of the six churches on the territory, destroying the necropolis, dismantling the walls and watchtowers.
Today, the monastery houses several shrines, including a list icons of the Tikhvin Mother of God, icon "Healing of the deaf-blind-mute". Although part of the territory of the monastery is built up, some buildings have been preserved: a refectory, to which the Church of the Holy Spirit is attached, a fraternal building, an “old” refectory, Malt Dezhnya (a utility building in which food was stored, malt was dried), a craftsman's chamber; also in the Simonov Monastery, three towers located on the southern wall survived - Forge, Dulo and Salt.
Where is the abode
The Simonov Monastery is located in the Danilovsky district of the capital at the address: Vostochnaya street, building 4.
The monastery's phone number (you can also contact the society of hearing-impaired Christians at the same number): 67-52-195. Code - 495.
How to get to the Simonov Monastery in Moscow
- To visit this monastery, it is most convenient to use underground: having reached the Avtozavodskaya station, get off the last car (start counting from the center).
- Then move along Masterkova Street towards East, heading to the tower of the monastery.
- The journey will take about five to ten minutes.
- You can also get here on your own. by road.
Visiting the monastery
Since today the monastery is not operating, you can visit its territory Anytime. If you want to not only admire the preserved remains of the architectural complex of the monastery, but also learn more about its history, get acquainted with the shrines, visit monastery library which operates in the territory. It is open every day except Friday.
- on weekdays– from 15.00 to 19.00;
- on the weekend– from 10.00 to 19.00;
- on Sundays Orthodox conversations are held here, the beginning of which is at 15.00.
Important! Going to this monastery, remember that all pilgrims and tourists should observe a certain form of clothing: women need to cover their heads, wear skirts or dresses that cover their knees, do not expose their shoulders; men are not allowed to be on the territory in shorts, with a bare torso, in hats.
Schedule of Divine Services in the Simonov Monastery
At the moment, services are not held in all the churches of the monastery, but only in the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. Keep this in mind when planning to visit the monastery on a pilgrimage.
Important! Divine services in the temple are conducted both with words and gestures, which allows even the deaf or people with hearing problems to attend them. Also in the temple there are carved icons for the deaf-blind.
Photo of the monastery
- The best preserved monastery towers.
- The remains of the architectural ensemble are adjacent to modern buildings.
- It is possible to imagine the general view of the Simonov Monastery today only from its old images.
- The restored refectory of the monastery attracts the attention of visitors.
- Not all buildings have received a "second youth".
- The malting plant is one of the few surviving buildings of the monastery.
- The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, located on the territory of the Staro-Simonov Monastery in Moscow, has retained its appearance.
- The remains of the heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo are kept in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
- Between the buildings that belong to the ensemble of the monastery, residential buildings also rise.
Simonov Monastery - video
The Simonov Monastery, which used to be one of the richest and most beautiful monasteries in Moscow, is gradually being revived by the community of the hearing impaired. Although the temples and the necropolis, where the family tombs of many nobles were, have not yet been restored, the territory of the former monastery no longer looks like an abandoned wasteland, and a prayer sounds again in the temple of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.
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