Sretensky Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.
Sretensky Monastery is a former women's monastery inside the kremlin of Pereslavl-Zalessky. Its two surviving 18th-century buildings are the Cathedral of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the Church of Alexander Nevsky, both built in the 1740s at the expense of the Pereslavl merchant and manufacturer F. Ugrimov. Most of the monastery wall and the bell tower were demolished in 1933.
The Sretensky Novodevichy Monastery was a women's monastery active in the 17th and 18th centuries inside the kremlin of Pereslavl-Zalessky. It was abolished in 1764, when both of its churches became parish churches. In 1933 most of the monastery wall and the bell tower were demolished. The surviving buildings date from the 1740s, when the merchant and manufacturer F. Ugrimov funded the Cathedral of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the Church of Alexander Nevsky.
The monastery was dissolved in 1764 and its two churches became parish churches; the Cathedral of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is named for the 1395 meeting of the icon in Moscow. The Alexander Nevsky Church reopened on 12 September 1998.
The monastery stood inside the former kremlin of Pereslavl-Zalessky, and only two 18th-century churches remain: the Cathedral of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon and the Church of Alexander Nevsky. The walls and bell tower were demolished in 1933, so there is no enclosure to walk around; the churches now serve as parish churches, and the Alexander Nevsky church was reopened on 12 September 1998.
Pereslavl-Zalessky is part of Russia's Golden Ring, and Sretensky Monastery is one of only five surviving monasteries in the town. This concentration in such a small town shows how central it once was to Russian monastic life.
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