Djuma Mosque is the oldest mosque in Derbent and one of the oldest in Russia. It was built over a 6th-century Christian basil ...
The Arkazhy Monastery was one of the most important monasteries of medieval Novgorod Republic. All that remains of it today i ...
The Gostilitsy Trinity Church was built between 1755 and 1764 in barocco style. It has an oval shape and a low dome. The chur ...
The Russian Orthodox Antonievo-Siysky Monastery was founded by Saint Anthony of Siya deep in the woods, 90 km to the south o ...
Kizichesky Vvedensky Monastery is a small male monastery in Kazan. It was founded in 1691 by Adrian—the Moscow Patriarc ...
In 1632 the future Patriarch Nikon attempted to escape from the Solovki to the Kozheozero Monastery in the south. As Nikon la ...
Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Sinichya Gora is one of Russia"s oldest churches, dating from 1192. The church i ...
The Kozheozersky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery founded by Niphont of Kozheozero and Serapion of Kozheozero in 155 ...
Pavlo-Obnorsky Monastery was founded by Pavel of Obnora in 1414. In the 17th century, this was one of the most influential mo ...
Troitse-Gledensky Monastery is located at the place where previously a fortress of Gleden was built in the end of the 12th ce ...
Transfiguration monastery was founded in 1192 by Martiry Rushanin, who built the wooden Transfiguration Church. At the time, ...
The Transfiguration Church in Kovalyovo was built around 1345. The southern annex is thought to have been designed as the bur ...
Yelizarov or Yeleazarov Convent is a small convent founded as a monastery in 1447 by a local peasant named Eleazar. He constr ...