Annunciation Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod
Annunciation Monastery is the oldest monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1221. The white-stone monastery is located in the Nizhny Novgorod district, on the right, high bank of the Oka River, near its confluence with the Volga. The founders of the Annunciation Monastery were the great Vladimir-Suzdal prince Yuri Vsevolodovich and St. Simon, bishop of Vladimir. The main monastery sights are the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church of Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, the Church of Sergius of Radonezh. The well-maintained territory also includes a hospital building, buildings of the theological seminary, a necropolis, a cross on the site of a destroyed chapel and a monument to the Russian Emperor Alexander III.
