Bogoyavlensko-Anastasiin Monastery in Kostroma
Bogoyavlensko-Anastasiin Monastery is a female (formerly, until 1847 – male) monastery located in Kostroma on Simanovsky (Bogoyavlenskaya) Street. The Bogoyavlensky Cathedral houses the Theodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, a wonderworking icon of the Mother of God revered by the Russian Orthodox Church and known as one of the shrines of the House of Romanov.
History
The Epiphany-Anastasin Monastery was founded in 1426 by Nikita of Kostroma, a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, on the river Suda, not far from the Kostroma Kremlin.
.In 1559-1565 the first stone cathedral of the monastery was built – a tall building on a basement, with a pozakomarny covering and massive ornate drums under golden domes. The central dome with a cross and a drum is almost identical in height to the main volume of the temple. Originally the cathedral was surrounded by a gallery with porches, which was later dismantled. In 1672 the temple was painted by the order of the rich Kostroma boyars Saltykovs by the artel Gury Nikitin and Sila Savin.
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In 1864 a huge red temple was added to the Epiphany Cathedral, which, turning the old cathedral into an altar part, hid the ancient walls on three sides.
.In 1873, the first free medical center with an outpatient clinic and dispensing of medicines was opened in the monastery. The monastery school began to train sisters of mercy.
.At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the revived monastery became a place of pilgrimage for prominent church and state figures and was renamed again to Epiphany.
.In 1982, a fire in the cathedral destroyed all the frescoes and the cypress iconostasis.
.In 1924 the monastery was closed: its buildings were adapted for residential apartments and institutions, and the cathedral housed an archive. The monastery necropolis with the graves of members of many noble Russian families was completely destroyed.
In 1991, the St. Mary Magdalene Almshouse was organized in the monastery.
.In 1993, the St. John of Kronstadt Children’s Orphanage was established at the Epiphany Convent, which became the first church orphanage in the post-Soviet history of the Russian Orthodox Church for young orphans and children abandoned by their parents – girls aged 4-6 with weakened health. On October 19, 1998, he received the Order of St. Tsarevich Dimitrii, Wonderworker of Moscow and Uglich.
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