Avraamiev Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Rostov, Russia

The Avraamiev Monastery is an Orthodox monastic complex in Rostov Veliky, one of Russia's oldest towns, and it comprises several stone churches and traditional buildings from different centuries. The structures are grouped around an enclosed courtyard and connected by walls and towers that give the compound a clearly defined form.

The monastery is first mentioned in the Laurentian Chronicle under 1261, though its foundation is traditionally linked to Abraham of Rostov, whom historians Yevgeny Golubinsky and Arseny Kadlubovsky place in the 14th century. Before his Kazan campaign, Ivan the Terrible took Abraham's staff from here; after the 1552 capture of Kazan he built the Epiphany Cathedral in 1553–1555. In 1608 the monastery was sacked by the voivode Pleshcheyev, who sided with the Poles, and in 1930 its walls were demolished.

The monastery has been a women's community since 2004, when the Holy Synod converted the patriarchal metochion into the Avraamiev Epiphany Convent. Its abbess until her death on 11 February 2022 was Igumenia Miropia (Yurchenkova). The monastery keeps the memory of the hermit Abraham, whose staff was kept here and taken by Ivan the Terrible before his Kazan campaign.

The monastery sits on the edge of Rostov Veliky and can be reached on foot from the town center, though it takes a bit of walking. Since it is an active religious site, modest clothing is expected when entering the churches.

The Epiphany Cathedral, built in 1553–1555, is one of the earliest votive churches founded by Ivan IV after the capture of Kazan in 1552, and one of the first mid-16th-century churches with several side chapels. Before the campaign the tsar came here as a pilgrim and took with him the staff of Abraham of Rostov, long kept in the monastery.