Description of the attraction
The time of the founding of the St. Nicholas Monastery is unknown. According to oral tradition and according to the preface to the chronicle of the city of Mukachevo, the monastery was founded in the 11th century. Documentary evidence of its existence dates back to the 14th century. In the Mukachevo Chronicle, there is evidence that Prince Fyodor Koratovich arrived in Ugric Russia from Podolia in the summer of 39 of the 14th century to serve in the service of King Karol I of Hungary, who handed over the Mukachevo dominance to him. On the banks of the Latoritsa River, on Chernecha Mountain, the prince built a church of wood and a small building for monks. In March 60 of the 14th century, the monastery received a princely charter, which assigned two villages to the monastery - Lavki and Bobovishche.
The first abbot mentioned in historical sources was Luke. From 91 in the 15th century, the monastery became the residence of the Orthodox rulers of Transcarpathia, who united the region in the Mukachevo diocese. The present monastery was built of stone in 66-72 years of the 18th century by the architect Dmitry Rat.
In the year 62 of the 19th century, a great fire broke out in the monastery, the consequences of which were eliminated only three years later. In the 20s of the last century, the work of the monastery was reorganized by the Galician Basilian monks. The monastery has preserved a valuable library numbering more than 6 thousand unique folios and manuscripts, as well as an archive. After the Great Patriotic War, the monastery was transferred to the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and it was transformed into a women's monastery. The monastery contains several icons and a cancer with a particle of the relics of Moses Ugrin and other saints of God.
