Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery

Local nameСерафимо-Дивеевский монастырь
LocationDiveyevo, Russia

Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery, or Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery, or Holy Trinity-Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery is a monastery of nuns in Diveyevo settlement near Sarov, and near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is situated in a region considered to have immense spiritual significance. Within its immediate vicinity are situated two other cloisters: Sarov Monastery and Sanaksar Monastery.

The convent is famous because Saint Seraphim of Sarov served as Staretz for the nuns of this monastery, though he only travelled to the convent once during his lifetime. He was a monk at the nearby monastery of Sarov. After the fall of communism, his relics, which had been feared lost, were discovered in the storeroom of a "museum of atheism" in Saint Petersburg and solemnly transferred to the Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery, which has come to be named after him.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diveyevo_Convent

Address 12 Советская улица, Дивеево, Russia

Coordinates 55°2'25.474" N 43°14'52.624" E

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