Aleksandrovskij monastyr, Suzdal

Monastery of St. Aleksander Nevsky - originally female, after reactivating the Men's Orthodox monastery in the Suzdal, belonging to the Włodzimierz Eparchy.

According to the application, the first monastic community in the place of today's monastery of St. Aleksandra was founded in 1240 by Aleksander Nevsky, who founded a wooden church for the needs of the community. In the following centuries, the monastery received earthly broadcasting from subsequent Moscow princes, and his position increased so much that he began to be described as a great bench. The monastery buildings from this period did not survive - in the footsteps of them are only two tombstones from 1362 and 1393, originally located in the burial places of the Sudal Princesses of Maria and Agripina.

In 1650, at the order of Bishop Sazdalski, Serapion was demolished by older monastery buildings and replaced with a completely new architecture. Natalia Naryszkina transferred the funds for the construction of the main church, founded in 1695 of the Lord's Ascension. The new team of monastery buildings was erected in a style typical of the seventeenth -century architecture of the Włodzimierz and Sudal region. The Church of the Ascension of the Lord is topped with five onion domes, with apse, decorated externally carefully carved frieze and windows, without painting decoration outside. The belfry of the church does not create one block with her, but is located in the vicinity of the temple. This is the only such building in the Suzdal that has no external decoration.

In the 18th century, the entire monastery buildings were surrounded by a low brick wall, in which testers imitating Russian defensive architecture were placed for decorative purposes. There was also a decorative entrance gate in the wall - this object together with a fragment of the adjacent wall is its only preserved element.

The monastery has been open again since 2005.