Pokrovskij zenskij monastyr, Suzdal

Monastery of the Care of the Mother of God - a female Orthodox monastery in the Suzdal, in the Włodzimierz Eparchy.

The monastery was founded in 1364. The first complex of monastery buildings was entirely built of wood; No elements survived. In the 16th century, the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasyl III gave the monastery significant cash gifts, which allowed the erection of his main council, the entrance gate with the Church of the Castor, the belfry, probably also a residential building and wall. The same ruler forced his wife Solomonida Saburowa to submit perpetual religious weddings, considering her a descendant unable to birth. Solomonida, as a nun Zofia, has just lived in the monastery of the care of the Mother of God in Suzdal. Among the women forced to live in this monastery, Ivan III, Eupraksia, wife of Vladimir Staricki, one of the wives of Ivan the Terrible Anna Wasilszczykowa, the second wife of Wasyl Szujski Maria and wife of Piotr and Eudoksja Łopuchin.

The main monastery temple is the Council of the Mother of God, built in the years 1510–1514, built on the site of an earlier wooden temple. Rebuilded many times, in 1962 he regained its appearance from the period immediately after completing the construction. From the northwestern side, a belfry raised in the 16th-18th centuries is adjacent to the building. The entrance to the monastery leads through the gate with the church of the Annunciation, formed in the period 1510–1518. The third monastery temple is the church-very of the conception of the Mother of God, erected after 1551 at the behest of Ivan the Terrible on the site of an older wooden sacred building. The complex of residential and farm buildings of the monastery was formed in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the Soviet period, the Hotel "Pokrowskaja" was built in the monastery. It operated until 2008. The monastery itself was reactivated in 1992 and currently it is one of the female monastic communities of the Włodzimierz eparchy.