St. Nicholas Monastery.Mogilev.Belarus.

St. Nicholas Monastery is an Orthodox women's monastery of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (included in UNESCO's list of the most valuable buildings in Europe in the Baroque style). Wiki
The history of the monastery began in the 17th century with the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the Polish King Vladislav IV. In the XVII - XVIII centuries the monastery was ruined by Swedish, Russian and Tatar troops. They did not escape the monastery and fires.

For several centuries, in different years on the territory of the monastery there were - an active parish, a parochial school, a religious school, a printing house.

After the October Revolution of 1917. The parish was closed and the territory was given for storage. Since 1937. To 1941. There was a transit prison on the territory of the monastery.
During the restoration of the St. Nicholas Church, numerous remains of dead people were discovered.
The remains were reburied on the territory of the monastery. So at the monastery a burial vault appeared, in which the Psalter is read.

After World War II - on the territory of the temple there was a book base.

Only from the beginning of the 90s of the XXth century the monastery revives and begins to act.

Road to the temple

Residential premises of the monastery

Entrance gates

Bell tower

The Church of Saint Onufrius (1798)

Church of St. Nicholas(1666 – 1672)

The graves of Archbishop Maxim (Krokhi) and Evgenia's abbess (Voloshchuk), who revived the monastery at the end of the 20th century

Chapel, where the remains of prisoners of the transit prison found in 1992 were buried

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