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Before you will get to the Resurrection cathedral you will first see the underground churches of the saints equal-to-apostles Constantine and Helen. You will step down under the ground and get into 2 small chapels that are beautifully decorated but unfortunately also almost too dark to take good photos and taking a flash is something I did not want to do, as the church is a place where most of the visitors are believers who come there in order to pray.
Updated Jul 11, 2009
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You will have to pay a small extra entrance-fee in order to be allowed to step up to the monastery-walls, but I am sure it is worth it : There is a small exhibition about the construction of the monastery in one of the towers and in another one there are monks singing,that was really great ! The walk on the walls also offers some extra photo-opportunities and a great view of the monastery.
Updated Jul 11, 2009
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Inside of the Holy Sepulchre church you will see many things that are usually not to be found in russian orthodox churches like the large flat stone in my main photograph, that was taken from Jerusalem to this monastery: on this stone Jesus was walking and believers usually touch it when entering the church of Holy Sepulchre.
Updated Jul 11, 2009
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You will find the church of the Assumption of the Most-Holy Mother of God in a side-part of the resurretion cathedral and it was decorated with ornate stucco-works and glazed tiles during the 17th century. The churches of New Jerusalem are the only ones in all of Russia that are decoarted with tiles that way.
Written Jul 10, 2009
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This is the ornate altar of the side-chapel of the Beheading of John the Baptist, next to the entrance of the Resurrection cathedral. It is decorated with glazed tiles dating back to the middle of the 17th century and it is quite hard to find a moment there, when no believers are praying there, so you wont disturb anybody, when taking your photos.
Updated Jul 10, 2009
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Tryokhsvyatskii bell is the only remaining bell of the belfry of the Novojerusalem-monastery, that once had a clock and 15 bells but it was completely destroyed in WW II by german troops. You will see the portrait of three prelates on this bell : Grigory Bogoslov, John Zlatoust and Vasily Veliky
The bell has a weight of 100 pounds.
Updated Jul 10, 2009
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You will get to the Calvary church when stepping up to the 2nd floor of the resurrection cathedral and you will see there a cruzifiction dating back to the 17th century in the place of the execution. Some parts of this chapel are decorated with tiles in great colors and patterns.
Updated Jul 10, 2009
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You will find the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre right under the large dome of the Resurrection Cathedral and it is a 1:1 copy of the real Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. You are able to step in through a really very low gate (see my 2nd picture) and will then get into a small room as shown in my pics #3 and #4. my last pic is the view into the Resurrection Cathedral from the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre.
Updated Jul 10, 2009
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Patriarch Nikon had the idea to build the main church of the monastery as an exact copy of the Jerusalem Holy Sepulchre Church. The size and layout of the church, including the Holy Sepulchre, Gogotha, and other parts were copied exatly as they were in Jerusalem of that time, only from outside it looks slightly different, when it comes to the construction of the main dome.
Updated Jul 9, 2009
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The round brick tent crowning a rotunda in which center there is a small white stone chapel symbolizing the Holy Sepulcher rises 18-meter height above the Cathedral.
Diameter of a tent makes 22 meters, and it is the greatest construction of a similar sort in old Russian architecture.
Architects P.I.Zaborsky, Yakov Bukhvostov, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Matvei Kazakov, Karl Blank and others took part in the creation of this ensemble.
Updated Jan 25, 2008
"Voskresensk on Istra in Russia is well-known, And as New Jerusalem it is honor" the great Russian poet Gavriil Derzhgavin wrote in the XVIIIth century. Voskresensk is the old name of a little town...
A new Jerusalem, 60km north of Moscow
Novo Jerusalem is the main attraction of Istra, a small town that is situated about 60 km north of Moscow
Istra-Voskresensk-New Jerusalem
You would be probably surprised to learn that all the three names in the title of this page are the names of one and the same place. Voskresensk is the name of the town that it had before the...
Monastery was conceived in XVII c. by Patriarch Nikon as 'Russian Palestine', an image of the Holy Land with the exact copy of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher with its topography and relics.
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