The Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas , also known every bit the Belaya Gora Monastery , is located on overstep of a loma inwards Belaya Gora or the White Mountains , inwards Russian Federation , at a distance of 85 kilometers from the metropolis of Perm together with near l kilometers away from the town of Kungur. The monastery is dominated past times a beautiful white church building amongst gilt onion domes topped past times golden crosses. During wintertime through restrict , the white construction becomes indistinguishable from the snowy surrounding.
The master copy wooden church building together with monastery was built inwards 1894 , together with housed some 25 orphan boys who received didactics inwards reading , writing , church building singing together with diverse crafts. When the edifice burned downward , construction of a novel , two-story , rock church building began inwards June 1902 , together with it went on for the side past times side 15 years. During those years some 4 hundred monks lived inside the grounds , together with they helped inwards the monastery's construction past times making their ain bricks at the monastery’s brickworks. They also goodness agriculture , animate beingness husbandry , bee-keeping together with fishing.
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When the monastery was completed inwards 1917 , it had room for 8 ,000 people together with was equipped amongst ventilation together with a steam heating system. Inside the church building , the high , arcing ceiling , together with walls were covered amongst classical Russian Orthodox paintings together with icons of saints together with religious scenes accentuated amongst gold. Its official consecration ceremony was attended past times only about xxx ,000 people. The Belogorsky Monastery's Cathedral became Perm diocese's most grandiose church.
Then i solar daytime inwards 1918 , the Bolsheviks arrived at the monastery , dragged the monastery's Archimandrite Varlaam to the valley below , shot him together with threw him inwards the Kama River. They broke the corking bells of the monastery amongst sledge hammers together with destroyed many artworks. Many monks lost their lives trying to forbid the monastery’s destruction. Some were lined upwardly against the church building walls together with shot —the bullet holes yet evident inwards the walls. Others were buried endure inwards majority graves. Many were deported.
In the 1930s , the monastery’s buildings were used every bit a prison theatre campsite for the politically repressed together with the forcibly relocated , together with subsequently a habitation for the disabled was opened. During the Second World War , it became a rehabilitation oculus for the wounded together with the crippled inwards the war. It served every bit the household for invalids together with the mentally unstable until 1986. In 1980 , a mental patient almost brought the entire edifice downward when he ready laissez passer the sack to the roof. The cathedral was badly damaged together with almost all the cathedral’s domes were burnt.
In 1993 , function began to restore the edifice together with has been going on always since. The in conclusion stage of the restoration began inwards 2011.
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A replacement for a smaller wooden version that i time stood hither commemorating the survival of Nicholas II , after he was attacked past times a sword-wielding assassinator inwards Nippon inwards 1891. Photo credit: vladomir.livejournal.com
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