Thanks to God's Providence in the main cityBelarus, in honor of the holy martyr Princess Elizabeth was established Holy Elizabethan Monastery. The apostolic work of his sisters carries heat and light to where everything is distorted and permeated by despair and sorrow. It is here with His love that the Lord cleanses, washes and sanctifies the souls of people crippled by sin. To repent and meet the forgiving and loving Most High - that is what each sister’s vocation is.
The history of the foundation of the monastery
St. Elisabeth Monastery (Minsk) is based onthe outskirts of the city, in the area of Novinki. Today it is the only active monastery in the Belarusian capital. It was founded in the place where there were no churches at the very end of the last century. The sisterhood of the same name, on the basis of which, in fact, grew up this monastery, still continues to provide charity in the Republican Psychiatric Hospital and other health facilities, as well as in boarding schools for adults and children with particular psychophysical development.
Initially, in this boarding school was erected homeChurch in honor of Ksenia of Petersburg. As time passed, some Sisterhood servants wished to devote themselves fully to serving the neighbor and the Lord. It was at this time that the Holy Elizabeth Convent (Minsk) was founded.
Patients in the nearby hospital and ordinary people.began to offer their help when the buildings of the monastery and its temples were just beginning to be built. To this day, the sisters help the sick, conduct classes and holidays with the children, organize their name day and performances. They are always where their help is needed.
Elizaveta Fedorovna
St. Elisabeth Monastery (Minsk) is named inhonor of Ella (in the future Elizabeth Feodorovna), daughter of the Hesse-Darmstadt duke and the English princess. Parents instilled in their children love and compassion for loved ones, a sense of beauty.
Even in her youth, she met the Grand Duke,representative of the Russian ruling dynasty, Sergei Alexandrovich. After marrying, the young princess helped the destitute, sick and suffering, trying to alleviate their suffering, visiting hospitals, prisons, and shelters. And her noble and deeply faithful husband supported his wife in all good undertakings. After his death, Elizabeth Fyodorovna found solace in the relics of the miracle worker Alexei, where a marvelous monastery subsequently arose.
During the time of distemper in our country princesscontinued to help the needy. But once, on the third day of Easter in 1918, she was arrested and taken out of the capital, and six months later she was executed along with the nun Varvara. Now her relics are kept in Jerusalem.
Monastery buildings
На сегодняшний день Свято-Елизаветинский the monastery (Minsk) has a territory in which eight churches were built, a refectory for pilgrims painted with frescoes, a fence with small towers, several cell buildings, a bell tower duplicated on the other side by the tower in similar forms. At the monastery there is a publishing house, several shops.
Monastic temples
Lower monastery churchconsecrated in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker.This is the first temple built on the territory of the monastery, which was consecrated in the last month of the last century. Particles of the Holy Relics, in whose honor the church was founded, were solemnly brought to the Holy Elizabethan Convent (Minsk) at the beginning of our century. A few months later, this shrine was inserted into the temple icon by Metropolitan Philaret personally for universal worship. Also in this temple there are icons with inserted particles of the relics of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, Seraphim of Sarov, Simeon Vertuhovsky, Gabriel Belostok.
The temple in honor of the Resurrection of the righteous Lazarus Four Days. It is located near the crematorium at the Northern cemetery, it is here that funerals and memorial services are regularly served. The frescoes of the temple depict the Second Coming and the Last Judgment.
The temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Power".It is located next to the monastery. The beauty of the upper church strikes with the incredible beauty of Byzantine-style murals. And the bottom is similar to the early Christian churches. Here the Sacrament of Baptism is performed, and the Sacrament of Wedding and all the festive services take place here.
The temple in honor of the Royal Martyrslocated in the script of the above church.
The temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Inexhaustible Chalice". It is located near the monasteryCompound, in the village of Lysaya Gora, in the metropolitan area. There is rehabilitation for people who have a drug or alcohol addiction, there are also people who were in prison and had long prison terms, people who do not have their own housing.
Monastery activities
Ward sisters people work in the gardens, onfields and farms, on construction. The Holy Elizabeth Monastery (Minsk) also has an icon painting workshop, to which creative young people with artistic education are invited, and who would like to serve the church and gain experience in the art of icon painting. There are also other workshops, such as carpentry, ceramic, sewing, wall-mosaic, mechanical and mechanical and many others. And about four years ago, in the center of the main city of Belarus, the monastery opened the Miracle Mill cafe.
St. Elisabeth Monastery (Minsk). Chorus
For more than ten years this creativethe group pleases with its singing not only parishioners, but also all lovers of church music. All singers of this choir have musical education of various specialties, and some of them are diploma holders and laureates of various international competitions, singers of famous choirs.
The repertoire of the monastic choir is characterized by a complete rejection of the author's music, as well as reliance on the Byzantine and Znamenny chants. But the main thing is the beauty and beauty of church chants.
The team of this monastery is known not only in its own country, but also far beyond its borders. The publishing house has released a series of discs of the choir, the funds from which go to the needs of the cloister.
Regent of the choir
Руководителем творческого коллектива является nun Juliana, who graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory. She owns the authorship, harmonization and processing of more than one hundred and fifty church hymns. Monastic publishing house was released compilation of Juliana. And a local TV about her film was released. For her work, the nun was awarded the Order of Cyril of Turov.
