New Jerusalem
New Jerusalem Resurrection Monastery is unique architectural and park monument on the Istra River located about 50 km from Moscow city. It was founded at the middle of 17th century by the ambitious Patriarch Nikon as "Russian Palestine". It was modelled on Jerusalem even to the extent of ranaming the Istra River the Jordan and the garden, Gethsemane, with the exact copy of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher with its topography and relics. In December 10 1941, German special troops blew all towers and temples of the monastery. The complex was absolutely destroyed. All buildings that you will see on my pictures now are a result of reconstruction, which has been going on nowadays.
Here is the dome of the main cathedral of the New Jerusalem Resurrection Monastery (Resurrection Cathedral), which was built in 1658-1685 and considered to be the one of most grandiose building of XVII century Russian architecture.
The Resurrection Cathedral, was built as a similarity of a church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The model of the cathedral was brought to Russia by the Greek Patriarch Paisy in 1649. Paisy spent several months in Moscow. He met Tsar Alexis and Nikon, who was an abbot of Novospassky monastery. The influence of Paisy on the future Patriarch was a big one. Obviously in that time the idea of unification of the Orthodox lands under Moscow authority came to Nikon's mind.
Resurrection Cathedral
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New Jerusalem
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Istra
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