Description of the attraction
On the banks of the Volga is located founded in 1328 and 1330. Archbishop of Suzdal St. Dionysius Pechora Ascension Monastery. In the 1640-50s. the famous Nizhny Novgorod architect Antipa Vozulin built the current monastery ensemble, including the five-domed Ascension Cathedral with a gallery, a tent-roofed bell tower, a tent-roofed Assumption Church with a refectory, a tent-roofed gate church of St. Euthymius of Suzdal, rector's chambers and cell buildings with the temple of St. Macarius. A stone fence and a small gate church of the Intercession of the Virgin were built later, in 1765.
By the decision of the NKVD in the Nizhny Novgorod province, the monastery was closed in 1924. Divine services were resumed in 1993. In 2000-2004. the monastery buildings have been thoroughly restored. On the territory of the monastery there is now a museum of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese.
