🏛 St John's Convent (Ioannovsky Monastery)

наб. Карповки, 45

A red-brick convent with Byzantine-style domes; the crypt holds the tomb of John of Kronstadt.

The convent was founded by John of Kronstadt and named after his patron, St John of Rila.
The neo-Byzantine building was designed by the diocesan architect Nikolay Nikonov; the foundation was laid in September 1900.
The main church was consecrated on 17 November 1902 with Father John taking part.
In December 1908 John of Kronstadt was buried here in a white marble tomb in the basement church.
In 1926 the entrance to the crypt was walled up and the relics hidden under a concreted floor — they have never been found.
In 1989 the convent was returned to the Church as a metochion of the Pühtitsa Convent.

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