Solovetsky, Archangelsk Province, Russia, August 14, 2024
Photo: sobory.ru
A church named after one of the co-founders of the 15th-century Solovki Monastery was reconsecrated this week, followed by the first Liturgy there in 100 years.
Bp. Porphyry celebrating the Liturgy. Photo: solovki-monastyr.ru On Monday, August 12, on the feast of St. Herman of Solovki, the small consecration of the church and the Divine Liturgy was served by the Solovki abbot, Bishop Porphyry, the monastery reports.
The church was built in 1859, in a small courtyard between the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral and St. Nicholas Church, in place of the chapel that had been built in 1753 over the site of the burial of St. Herman, who arrived at Solovki in 1429 and reposed in 1479.
The Church of St. Herman managed to survive the devastating fire of 1923, but eventually was repurposed as part of the monastery’s use as a gulag, with its ecclesiastical appearance being destroyed.
The church’s appearance in 2017. Photo: sobory.ru
Monastic life resumed at Solovki in 1990, and in 1992, the museum complex was entered into the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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