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The history of the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky monastery dates back to the 70s of the 18th century, when the stone Kazan church was built under the direction of Mother Alexandra (Agafia Melgunova in the world).

Back to top The Seraphim-Diveevsky monastery numbered more than a thousand novices in the 20th century

The Kazan church in Diveevo, consecrated in 1780, had two chapels: in the name of St. Nicholas and St. Archdeacon Stefan. Mother Alexandra organized a community here that was run by the elders of the Sarov Monastery according to the strict charter of spiritual penance.

It was Mother Alexander who first noticed the monk of Seraphim, as if she felt in him the power of an ascetic and a real man of God who could continue her work by administering the community and the Kazan church

After the exit from the gate the Monk Seraphim of Sarov took charge of the women's monastery in Diveevo

The sisters of the monastery remembered how Seraphim of Sarov spoke about the Kazan church: "Only three tents qui from around the world will be taken entirely undefeated in the sky: one something in the Kiev Lavra, the other ... (sisters forgotten), and the third, then your Kazan, Mother. In what it is Kazan church you have! The whole place, consecrated by the deeds of Mother Alexandra and others, will ascend into this temple, and the present church will remain only as if by a nucleolus. "
" In what it is Kazan church you have! "

Diveevsky monastery expanded, and by 1826 the number of sisters was 40 people, then the church of the Nativity of Christ and the Nativity of the Virgin was attached to the Kazan church in 1829. After 35 years in the center of the monastery the Holy Trinity Cathedral was elevated, and at the end of the 19th century a bell tower was erected in five tiers.

In 1861 the Kazan community was officially transformed into the Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery. By the beginning of the 20th century, he numbered more than a thousand novices.