Description of the attraction
The Clement Monastery was founded approximately in the 8-9th centuries, in the 14-15th centuries it was completed. There is even an opinion that some underground structures appeared at the dawn of Christianity. Clement, the holy martyr and disciple of the Apostle Peter, was here at hard labor in 98. Saint Clement and his followers created about 75 churches in the Crimea, - so the legend says. Clement himself worked on the construction of the Church of St. Andrew the First-Called.
Desolation overtook the monastery in 1779, when all Christians began to be evicted from the Crimean peninsula. Catherine II visited the Crimea in 1787, she was accompanied by noble persons from foreign royal families. Innocent, Archbishop of Tauride and Kherson, wrote many requests for the revival of the monastery. And in 1850 (April 15), by decree of the Holy Synod, the monastery in Inkerman resumed its activities.
The monastery suffered great destruction during the Inkerman battle in October 1854. In the following decades, it was restored and restored. Alexy, Archbishop of Tauride, rendered tremendous assistance in this. The abbot, Hieromonk Ephraim, worked hard for the benefit of the monastery. The restoration of churches, the construction of a house for the abbot, and the construction of a house church were financed by I. Chetverikov and A. Melushin. The work was supervised by D. M. Strukov, an artist of the Imperial Academy.
The cave temple in Inkerman bears the name of Saint Martin the Confessor. Supporters of the doctrine of Monothelism sent him into exile in Chersonesos, where he died in 655. In 1867, the redevelopment of the temple was made. As a symbol of the salvation of the emperor's family (meaning the catastrophe near the Porka station, which occurred in 1888), the Panteleimon temple was erected and consecrated in 1895. In 1905, the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Mirlikisky was added to the monastery ensemble, built on a flat upper section of the rock.
In 1924, the temples of the monastery began to be closed. The cave churches were closed on December 15, 1931, and all their property was given to the museums of Sevastopol. Later, the monastery hotel became a residential building. At the request of the filmmakers, the columns that served as its decoration were removed from the cave Clement Church.
1991 - the year of the beginning of the revival of the Inkerman monastery. Archimandrite Augustine played an important role in this. The restoration and restoration of churches began. Today, work is underway in the Trinity Church. With the blessing of the Ukrainian Metropolitan Volodymyr, the bowl with the relics of St. Clement was transferred to the cave church.
