Description of the attraction
The Hoshevsky Monastery of the Sisters of the Holy Family is located in Ivano-Frankivsk region, south of the outskirts of the village of Hoshev, not far from the monastery of the Basilian Fathers.
The Greek Catholic convent of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1911 and the community's activities were aimed at charity, educational and educational work. The first abbess of the monastery was Sister Teresa-Teklya Józefov. In 1950, the Soviet government banned the activities of the community, the sisters were exiled to camps, and the building was turned into a hospital for the mentally ill (the hospital is still functioning here).
The community began to revive in 1989, when a new monastery was built near Yasnaya Gora. The main building of the monastery is a two-storey building with a basement. At the main entrance there is a chapel with a tent-roofed octahedral roof and a semi-closed inner courtyard. The ground floor is occupied by a refectory, a library, cells and technical rooms. Also, cells are located on the second floor, a chapel and other auxiliary rooms.
As in the beginning of its existence, the community is still engaged in charity work. Basically, the sisters do not live in the monastery, but are engaged in catechesis and the upbringing of children, adolescents and orphans, serve in medical institutions, schools, make missionary trips to the Baltic countries and Belarus.
