Metochion of Konevets Monastery

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METOCHION OF KONEVETS MONASTERY. The Neo-Byzantine building erected at Bolshaya Okhta in 1906-08, located at 21 Sredneokhtinsky Avenue (architect N.N. Nikonov), included a three-aisle Holy Assumption Church built in the Russian style. In the late 1920s the metochion was closed and soon taken down; an apartment house was built in its place. In 1821-22, a small Chapel of the Our Lady of Konevets was erected at 7 Zagorodny Avenue by an unknown architect, which was extended and rebuilt in the so-called Russo-Byzantine style (architect I.B. Slupsky) in 1864-66. A revered copy of the icon belonging to the monastery was stored in the chapel. In 1919, the chapel was transformed into a parish church, in 1932 it was closed, and its interior was reconstructed. In the summer of 1993 the chapel was returned to the restored monastery; it has been functioning as a church since 1997.

References: Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1996. Т. 3. С. 128-129; Соколова Л. И. Коневское подворье в С.-Петербурге // С.-Петерб. епарх. ведомости. 2001. № 24. С. 147-155.

V. V. Antonov. Nikonov Nikolay Nikitich
Slupsky Ivan Blazheevich
Sredneokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл.: В 3 т. СПб., 1994-1996
Соколова Л. И. Коневское подворье в С.-Петербурге // С.-Петерб. епарх. ведомости, 2001