Description of the attraction
The Novo-Tikhvinsky Convent is the oldest Orthodox monastery in the city of Yekaterinburg. The history of the monastery began in 1796 with an almshouse at the cemetery Assumption Church.
The founder of the monastery was the daughter of an artisan from the Verkh-Isetsky plant - Kostromina. Officially, the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery was approved in December 1809. The construction of the monastery lasted almost throughout the entire 19th century. Any woman could join the community, regardless of age. From the middle of the XIX century. the monastery was the largest in the Urals and one of the largest in the country. The main shrine of the women's monastery was the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God.
In September 1824, the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery was honored with the visit of the great emperor Alexander I. The monastery was decorated with new churches. In September 1823, a church dedicated to All Saints was consecrated, rebuilt from a stone monastery chapel. The construction of the Alexander Nevsky Church, which was founded in 1814, continued, residential buildings, utility and work premises, a house for orphans and widows, a hotel and a stone fortress wall surrounding the monastery were erected. In 1832, the construction of a church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” was completed, located near the hospital cells. At the beginning of the XX century. surrounded by a high wall with towers, the Novo-Tikhvinsky convent already had six churches and was inhabited by 135 nuns and 900 novices.
In 1918, the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna was under arrest in the monastery, who was later killed in Alapaevsk. During the years of Soviet power, in 1920, the monastery was closed, and the cemetery was liquidated. At that time, many buildings of the architectural ensemble of the Yekaterinburg Novo-Tikhvinsky Monastery were rebuilt or simply destroyed. A military hospital was located on the territory of the monastery, and later (1960-1990s) in one of the former monastery temples there were expositions that belonged to the regional museum of local lore.
The Novo-Tikhvin Convent began to revive gradually only in 1994.
