Tabynsky monastery, Orthodox monastery in Gafuriysky District, Russia.
Tabynsky Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in Gafuriysky District featuring traditional Russian architecture with distinctive domed roofs and religious symbols adorning its exterior. The interior displays intricate iconography and sacred decorations that reflect Orthodox spiritual traditions.
Founded in the 17th century as a men's monastery on the site where the Tabynskaya (Kazan) Icon of the Mother of God appeared on the Usolka River, it burned down in the same century. It was restored and reopened in 1998 as a women's monastery. A church over the apparition site was laid in 1992, built by 1997 and consecrated in 2003 by Archbishop Nikon of Ufa and Sterlitamak; an earlier chapel there was blown up in 1972.
The monastery's main feast is the 9th Friday after Easter, honouring the Tabynskaya Icon of the Mother of God. Three Divine Liturgies are served at night and one in the morning, led by the archbishop of Ufa. Cross processions arrive from Ufa, Orenburg, Sterlitamak, Salavat, Ishimbay, Krasnousolsky and the village of Tabynskoye.
The monastery lies in the village of Kurorta, about 6 km from Krasnousolsky in Gafuriysky District. From Ufa's southern bus station, take a bus to Kurorta. The monastery stands beside holy springs near the Krasnousolsky mud-bath resort. The main patronal feast falls on the ninth Friday after Easter, when night liturgies are held and processions arrive from Ufa, Orenburg, Sterlitamak, Salavat, Ishimbay and Krasnousolsky.
The monastery church keeps two copies of the wonder-working Tabynskaya Icon of the Mother of God, and among its relics are an icon of St Moses, Archimandrite of Ufa, with a particle of his relics, and a wooden cross holding earth from Ganina Yama, where the remains of the royal martyrs were destroyed.
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