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The Tikhvin Dormition Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in Tikhvin, 200 km southeast of St. Petersburg.
The monastery was founded by Pimen, Archibishop of Novgorod, under the order of tsar Ivan the Terrible of February 11, 1560. In the photo: Church of Ascension.
In spring or summer of the same year, the monastery was complete, firstly as a wooden construction but solid and spacious as a respectable religious house is supposed to be. In the photo: The Dormition Cathedral at the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery.
The history of the monastery (in the photo: The Dormition Cathedral at the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery) is inseparable from the holy Theotokos of Tikhvin, an icon that appeared on the banks of the Tikhvinka River in 1383.
In November 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, Tikhvin was seized by German troops that brought the icon to Pskov. From there the icon was taken to Riga and later to the area in Germany occupied by American troops. In 1950, the icon was taken to Chicago.
In 2004, the icon was returned to the restored monastery (in the photo: The Dormition Cathedral and a bell tower of the monastery).
Bell tower of the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery.
A bell tower and the Church of Intercession at the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery.
The Dormition Cathedral at the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery.
The Church of Ascension at the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery.
Part of the fortress wall and the east tower of the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery.
