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      🏛 Raifa Mother of God Monastery

      посёлок Местечко Раифа, Зеленодольский район

      A 17th-century monastery on the shore of the forested Lake Raifa, inside the Volga-Kama Nature Reserve.

      Raifa Mother of God Monastery
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      Raifa Mother of God Monastery
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      • The hermitage was founded by the hermit Filaret, who put up a cell on the shore of Lake Sumskoye, now Raifa, in 1613.
      • The name comes from the Raifa monastery by the Red Sea.
      • The main shrine is a copy of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God: it was brought in 1668 and returned to the monastery in 1991.
      • The Georgian Cathedral in the Neoclassical style was built in 1835–1842 by the architect Mikhail Korinfsky.
      • The Sophia Church is one of the smallest: no more than ten people fit in its prayer area.
      • The gate bell tower was built in 1889–1903.

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      • Raifa Monastery and the nature-reserve forest

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