Belogorsky Monastery, Perm

Belogorsky St.Nicholas Orthodox missionary male monastery - a monastery on the White Mountain in the Perm region. For the severity of the statutes, this monastery was once called the Ural Athos.

The monastery is located about 70 km south of the center of Perm and 40 km west of Kungur.

HISTORY
In 1891, in memory of the “miraculous deliverance of Tsarevich Nicholas from danger in Japan”, a five-cross cross was established on White Mountain, nicknamed by the Tsar people (height 10 m 65 cm).

The place to lay the temple on White Mountain was consecrated on June 18, 1893. The construction of the first wooden church was completed in February 1894. In the same year, 1894, the construction of the parish and fraternal buildings was started, later there were also carpentry and metalworking workshops. A school was opened to train orphans (until 1917, 25 orphans were educated on Belaya Gora). In the monastic school, children were taught literacy, church singing, and various crafts.

A significant event for the Belogorsky Monastery occurred on September 16, 1897, when five holy icons were delivered as a gift to the new monastery with a religious procession from Moscow and St. Petersburg:

similar to the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
image of St. Sergius of Radonezh
image of the Kazan Mother of God, painted by the monks of the Valaam Monastery
image of the holy Prince Alexander Nevsky
image of the Mother of God "Novice"

However, two months later, on November 16, 1897, the wooden church was completely burned down. In the same year, 1897, the construction of a stone two-story building for the older brotherhood began.

The laying of a new stone church (Holy Cross Cathedral) was held on June 24, 1902. The construction of the temple lasted 15 years, at the end of construction the temple could hold 8 thousand people. The chief engineer of the project was EI Artyomov, the building material was supplied by the monastic brick factory. The consecration of the temple took place on June 7, 8 and 9, 1917, about 30 thousand people attended the ceremony.

During an audience with Emperor Nicholas II on December 8, 1910, the Belogorsk archimandrite Varlaam (Konoplev) handed him a book about the history of the monastery and photographs of the monastery. In 1912 the Belogorsky Monastery published the Voice of Duty magazine of the Orthodox-patriotic orientation.

During World War I, the Belogorsky Monastery donated (on March 19, 1916) 500 rubles in gold coins to the needs of the Russian army.

Holy Cross Cathedral
Holy Cross Cathedral was built in neo-Byzantine style on the model of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev. From the very beginning, the temple was equipped with ventilation and steam heating.

The monumental cathedral, the most ambitious in the Perm diocese, was built both on donations from individuals and at the expense of the monastery itself. ponds.

Soviet time
Tragic events came for the monastery in 1918. On August 25, 1918, the Bolsheviks tortured Archimandrite Varlaam and threw him into the Kama River. From August 1918 to January 1919, the Bolsheviks shot and tortured 34 monks of the Belogorsky Monastery.

On February 24, 1919, the troops of the White Army under the command of General Verzhbitsky, having made a forced march from Kungur, freed Belogorsky Monastery from the Bolsheviks. By this time the Bolsheviks had crushed and plundered the monastery. A few months later, on July 1, 1919, the Bolsheviks seized Perm, and soon the whole Perm region. Four years later, in March 1923, the monastery was finally closed.

Since 1930, a camp for repressed and special settlers has been opened on Belaya Gora, a year later the home for the disabled was opened. In 1941–1945, a rehabilitation center for the wounded and invalids of the Great Patriotic War was located on White Mountain. From 1946 to 1986 on the White Mountain was the home of the disabled World War II, labor and childhood. In 1980, a fire broke out in the Belogorsky Cathedral, which severely damaged the temple, in particular, almost all the domes of the church burned down.

Revival of the monastery
The beginning of the revival of the monastery is considered 1988-1989, when the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia was celebrated. In 1993, a project was developed for the restoration of the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross and the whole Belogorsky Monastery. In 1999-2002, 120 million rubles were spent on the restoration. In 2006, about 60 million rubles were allocated for these purposes from the regional budget of the Perm Territory, in 2007 - 18 million rubles.

In May 1996, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia visited the monastery.

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