🏛 New Jerusalem Monastery and Resurrection Cathedral

Истра, ул. Советская, 2

Patriarch Nikon's 17th-century monastery behind white walls with towers, on a hill above the Istra River.

The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon to recreate the holy places of Palestine near Moscow.
The name "New Jerusalem" was first spoken by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich at the consecration of the wooden church in 1657.
The Istra was renamed the Jordan, and the surrounding hills became Zion, Olivet and Tabor.
The Resurrection Cathedral, founded in 1658, replicates the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; the builders used its plan.
The 17th-century tiles of the monastery workshop, worked on by Pyotr Zaborsky and Stepan Polubes, have no equal in Russian architecture.
On 10 December 1941 German sappers blew up the cathedral and bell tower; the bell tower was rebuilt by 2014.
The stone walls of 1690–1697, designed by Yakov Bukhvostov, are about a kilometer long and 9 meters high.
Nikon is buried in the side chapel of St John the Baptist, where in the Jerusalem church Melchizedek is said to be buried.

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