On October 21-22, 2024, the commission of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism once again visited the nunnery in honor of the icon of the Mother of God «Vsetsaritsa» in Krasnodar.
.In November 2018, members of the commission had already visited the monastery. At that time, it included the abbess of the Vvedensky Tolga Nunnery of the Yaroslavl Metropolitan Church, Hegumen Varvara (Tretiak), and Hegumen Philip (Elshin), a resident of the Svyato-Trinity Sergius Lavra, who positively assessed the monastery's activities.
The commission's members praised the monastery's activities.
Now the Krasnodar monastery «Vsetsaritsa» was visited by the deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, abbess of the Zachatievsky Stavropegial Nunnery of Moscow. Moscow's Higumeness Juliana (Kaleda) and Abbess of the Bogoroditse-Rozhdestvensky Stavropigial Nunnery in Moscow Higumeness Viktorina (Perminova).
In the evening of October 21, the guests arrived at the monastery in Krasnodar, where they talked with the abbess Hegumeness Neonilla (Kuzmina).
On October 22 the members of the commission got acquainted with the holy shrines of the temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God «Vsetsaritsa», visited the lower chapel in honor of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina and the chapel-baptismal chapel in honor of the Apostle John the Theologian. Then the guests familiarized themselves with the living conditions of the nuns, having examined all the premises of the sisterhood: cells, library, sacristy and stitching workshop, refectory, kitchen, laundry, guest cell, household facilities. After that, the commission went to Dinsky district to the monastery farmstead, where the guests were given a tour of the shrines and beautiful natural corners.
The members of the commission visited the main church in honor of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in the style of Byzantine temple construction, a small church in honor of the Monk Savva Osvyaschenny with attached cells for priests, chapel-bell tower in honor of the Great Martyr George the Victorious, a chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, a new temple in honor of the Apostle James, also saw the church under construction in honor of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God and visited the spring in honor of the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God.
The guests then visited «Kuban Gethsemane»: the Garden of Gethsemane, the Stone of Prayer and bas-relief «Prayer of the Cup», the Cave of the Apostles, the Cave of the Assumption of the Mother of God, which was recently decorated and has not yet been consecrated. They also They visited the monastery ponds and the Stavok River, visited the living corner, where ponies, deer cubs and emu ostriches are kept in a newly reconstructed large enclosure, and appreciated the decorative design of the territory with a variety of plants.
In the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the members of the commission prayed the Divine Liturgy together with the abbess of the Krasnodar monastery.
In the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary members of the commission together with the abbess of the Krasnodar monastery prayed at the Divine Liturgy. The liturgical hymns were sung in Byzantine chant. After the Liturgy, the guests visited the economic services of the farmstead: quail farm, champignons growing workshop, wax candles production workshop, wafer house, storage of winter vegetables, greenhouse with drip irrigation, greenhouse for subtropical plants. Members of the commission inspected the farmland: gardens, vineyard, vegetable garden, new berry patch, familiarized and positively evaluated the refectory and hotel for pilgrims, the building of the future Orthodox clinic area of 1000 m2 at the monastery. In the sister building of the monastery the commission visited the following rooms: cells, sister and bishop's refectory, library, sacristy, rucholnya, storeroom, sanitary rooms.
Hegumeness Neonilla told the commission members about the third subdivision of the monastery — skete under construction in the Seversky district of Krasnodar region, where on a mountain near the village of Stavropolskaya buried the nuns of the Pokrovsky nunnery killed by the God-fighters a century ago. Currently under construction there is the first church and a monument to the murdered nuns. The guests did not have time to visit the hermitage, but familiarized with it by photos.
In conclusion, Abbesses Juliana and Victorina thanked the abbess of the monastery Abbess Neonilla and her sisters for the warm welcome.
The intensive development and beautification of the convent in honor of the icon of the Mother of God «Vsetsaritsa» over the years (compared to 2018, when the previous commission of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism visited the monastery) was achieved by the efforts of Abbess Neonilla, architect V.N. Izhikov, Orthodox benefactors and helpers of the monastery.
Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism/Patriarchy.ru
