🏛 Danilov Monastery

A monastery behind white walls, with a gate bell tower and several churches from the 17th–19th centuries.

The monastery was founded in the late 13th century by Moscow Prince Daniil Alexandrovich.
In 1930 the monastery's bells were bought by the American philanthropist Charles Crane and shipped to Harvard; they returned in 2008, and copies were cast for the university.
In 1983 the buildings of the former monastery were handed to the Church, and it became the spiritual and administrative centre of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Meetings of the Holy Synod are held in the Synodal Residence on the grounds.
Holy Trinity Cathedral was built in 1838, designed by Osip Bove.
Gogol, Khomyakov and Yazykov were buried in the monastery cemetery; after the monastery was closed the necropolis was destroyed, and some graves were moved to Novodevichy.

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