🏛 Sviyazhsk Dormition Monastery

Успенская ул., 6, Свияжск

A 16th-century monastery with the Dormition Cathedral, whose frescoes are the main reason the island made the UNESCO list.

The monastery was founded in 1555 by Archimandrite Herman, later Archbishop of Kazan; his relics are the abbey's main shrine.
The monastery ensemble was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 9 July 2017.
The Dormition Cathedral frescoes were painted around 1605 and cover 1,080 m², a rare complete cycle from the age of Boris Godunov.
The 1556 Nikolskaya refectory church stands with a 43-metre bell tower.
In the 16th–18th centuries the monastery was the richest in the Middle Volga and among the twenty richest in Russia.

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