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The subject index / Metochion of the Holy Assumption Monastery in Staraya Ladoga

Metochion of the Holy Assumption Monastery in Staraya Ladoga


Categories / Religion. Church/Monasteries and Convents

METOCHION OF THE HOLY ASSUMPTION MONASTERY IN STARAYA LADOGA, located at 29/1 Staropetergofsky Avenue. An architectural monument. A piece of land for the metochion was bought in 1902, when a wooden Holy Assumption chapel was erected, followed by a temporary church in 1903. The stone buildings of the metochion were erected in 1905-10 (by architect V. A. Kosyakov) and paid for by private donations (30,000 roubles were paid by a local land-owner E. M. Ivanova). The Our Lady of Kazan Church with five domes, whose facades were decorated in the Neo-Russian style with decorative elements of Moscow architecture of the 17th century was completed at the metochion. The iconostasis was made of light oak; the icons were painted by nuns of Novodevichy Convent. A bell tower with a chapel was built at the side of the church. In 1910, the Society of Soberness was added to the metochion. In 1935, the church was closed and renovated by craftsmen. In 1989, the metochion was transferred to the Valaam Monastery of Transfiguration of the Saviour. In 1991, the church was opened after repairs; the chapel dedicated to New Russian Martyrs and Confessors was consecrated in 1995. The metochion also houses a bookstore and a pilgrimage service.

Reference: Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1996. Т. 3. С. 115-116.

V. V. Antonov.

Persons
Ivanova Е.М.
Kosyakov Vladimir Antonovich

Addresses
Staro-Petergofsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 29/1

Bibliographies
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл.: В 3 т. СПб., 1994-1996

The subject Index
Novodevichy Convent


Kosyakov Vas. A., Kosyakov Vl. A., Kosyakov G.A., architects

KOSYAKOV family, architects, brothers, masters of Neo-Russian and Neoclassical styles. Vasily Antonovich Kosyakov (1862, St. Petersburg - 1921, Petrograd), graduated from the Civil Engineers' Institute (1885); from 1900

Metochions (entry)

METOCHIONS of monasteries and eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1715, by order of Tsar Peter the Great, the metochions of St. Sergius Trinity Monastery (from 1744

Narvsky Avenue

NARVSKY AVENUE known as Novo-Peterhofsky Avenue before the 1880s, between Staro-Petergofsky Avenue and Stachek Square. It was named after the town of Narva. The avenue was laid in the first half of the 19th century as a part of Petergofsky Avenue

Staro-Petergofsky Avenue

STARO-PETERGOFSKY AVENUE, called Yunogo Proletariya Avenue from 1922 to 1933, then known as Gaza Avenue until 1991, in honour of I.I. Gaza, a Bolshevist and a worker of Putilov Plant (1894-1933). It leads from the Fontanka River to Stachek Square