Description of the attraction
The Konstantino-Eleninsky Monastery is a new Orthodox women's monastery, which is located in the village of Leninskoye (Happolo) in the Vyborg district, not far from the resort areas of Komarovo and Repino.
There has never been an Orthodox church in this settlement. Previously, these territories were part of the Principality of Finland, and the population was mainly Lutheran. The Orthodox lived in Roshchino, where their church was located.
In 1998, an Orthodox community was created in the village of Leninskoye. A place was set aside for the construction of the temple, which remained from the burnt-out club. The construction of the temple was carried out at the expense of the teacher K. V. Goloshchapova. The foundation stone of the church in the name of Saints Constantine and Helena took place in June 1998, and in February 1999 domes were already installed on the temple. In December 1999, eight bells were raised to the belfry. In 1999, during the Nativity Lent, the first service was held in the church, and since May 2000, divine services have been held here on a regular basis. In 2001, the temple was consecrated by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy.
For several years the temple functioned as a parish. In 2006. at the request of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg Vladimir, at a meeting of the Holy Synod, it was decided to open the Konstantin-Eleninsky convent in the village of Leninskoye. Nun Hilarion became the abbess of the monastery. The first sisters arrived here from the Novodevichy Convent in St. Petersburg.
Now there are three churches on the territory of the monastery: the Church of Constantine and Helena, the baptismal church of the Nativity of Christ and the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The relics of St. Nicholas Church are the relics of Nicholas the Wonderworker, Spiridon of Tryfunsky, Anthony Dymsky, the healer Panteleimon, Alexander Nevsky, Seraphim of Sarov. In addition to these shrines, the monastery contains arks with particles of the relics of Constantine and Helena, Apostle Bartholomew, Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene, Hieromartyr Charalampius, Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates; the head of the disciple of Julitta and other saints, a particle of the Tree of the Cross of the Lord. The Iberian icon of the Mother of God, which was painted in Athos in 2002, the icon of the Mother of God "The Tsaritsa" also in Athonite writing, as well as the ancient image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, donated to the monastery by V. V. Putin, the icon of the Image of the Lord Not Made by Hands Vasnetsov.
At the entrance to St. Nicholas Church there is a sculpture of St. Nicholas, which was presented to the monastery by Z. Tsereteli. Opposite the Cathedral of Constantine and Helena there is another sculpture - the figure of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky (sculptor A. Charkin). This sculpture was nominated for the competition for the monument to A. Nevsky on the square near the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. But another work won the competition. Next to the monument to Alexander Nevsky there are memorial plaques with the names of those killed in the battles of 1941-45. and other wars of the inhabitants of the village. On May 9, local residents gather near the memorial, a memorial service for the dead is served. There is a Sunday school at the monastery, in addition, an almshouse for the elderly church and clergy is being built. Children from Sunday schools, disabled pilgrims, and laborers are accepted into the monastery with the blessing of their parish priests. People come to the monastery by prior arrangement in groups of up to thirty people. Pilgrims are provided with accommodation and meals.
Since 2007, a courtyard of the Konstantin-Eleninsky Monastery has been operating in St. Petersburg - the Church of St. Andrew of Crete (Riga Ave.). And recently, another courtyard appeared at the temple - in Lintul (the village of Ogonki, Vyborgsky district). The Holy Trinity Monastery was built at the expense of the landowners of the Neronovs with the blessing of John of Krondstadt. In 1939, during the Soviet-Finnish war, he was evacuated to Finland, where he continues to exist. But now, at the historic site in Lintul, the revival of the former monastery has begun, work is underway to develop a project for a temple and cell rooms. On August 4, 2008, a ten-kilometer religious procession was organized from the Constantine-Elenin monastery to the former Lintul monastery.
