Monastery of St. Jacob Saviour ( rus, Спасо-Яковлевский монастырь, Spaso-Yakovlevsky) is an

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...

monastery situated to the left from the

Rostov kremlin Rostov Kremlin (рус.: Ростовский кремль) - an architectural ensemble of four complexes, built during the 16th - 17th centuries, situated in Rostov, Yaroslavl region. The Kremlin is located in the center of Rostov. According t ...

on the

Rostov Rostov ( rus, Росто́в, p=rɐˈstof) is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, one of the oldest in the country and a tourist center of the Golden Ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero, northeast of Moscow. Population: While ...

's outskirts. The monastery was founded in 1389 by St Iakov of Rostov, who was banished from his town for sparing a woman sentenced to death. Iakov moved south from Rostov and settled near the church of

Archangel Michael Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...

, built in the 11th century by St Leontiy of Rostov. From the 14th up to the late 17th century all the buildings in the monastery were made of wood. The earliest kept building is Cathedral of Conception of St Anna (Zachatievsky Cathedral). It has been constructed in 1686. Another 17th-century building is Savior Transfiguration Cathedral (Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral) which once belonged to the abolished Spaso-Pesotsky Monastery. The Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery has been greatly venerated as the shrine of St Dmitry of Rostov. He arrived at Rostov on the 1 of March, 1702, following orders of Peter the Great. Upon his death in 1709 two valuable icons of Holy Mother were moved into the Troitsky Cathedral. Most of the monastery structures were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the fine neoclassical style. The Cathedral of St Dmitry of Rostov was constructed in 1794–1802 with support of Nikolai Sheremetev's column.

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