The St. Catherine's Monastery in Tver, Tver Oblast.
Sent by Svetlana from Tver, Tver Oblast, Russia.
St. Catherine's Monastery is an Orthodox female monastery located in Tver in the Zatverechye microdistrict on the left bank of the Volga River, not far from the confluence of the Tvertsa into the Volga.
The decision to transform the courtyard of the Ascension Women's Orshin Monastery at the Church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr into the St. Catherine's Convent was made by Archbishop Viktor of Tver and
Kashin in 1996, nun Juliania was appointed abbess of the monastery.
In 2001, the bell tower of the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine (the main cathedral of the monastery) was restored, the restoration of the attached church of St. Sergius of Radonezh began.
According to the diocese, 25 people live in the monastery (abbess, 3 nuns, 3 nuns, 2 novices, 16 laborers), there is a Sunday school and Orthodox theological courses, where up to 100 people study (read more).
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