A missionary convent reviving in the Yekaterinburg diocese

With the blessing of Archbishop Vikenty of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturie, the missionary convent of Sts Elizabeth and Mary at the Maly Lyp tract near the settlement of Shamary is being restored to life.

Built by the decree of Emperor Nicholas II issued on March 8, 1916, this monastery was dedicated to the Holy Righteous Elizabeth, the patron saint of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, and to St. Mary Magdalene Equal-to-the-Apostles.

Through the efforts of Hegumen Seraphim (Keznetsov), Sts Elizabeth and Mary’s missionary convent was built up on the eve of the terrible disaster of 1917 in the Maly Lyp tract at Shamary, almost on the border with the Perm Region (before the 1917 Revolution this area belonged to the Perm Region).

Now this convent of prayer, labour and charity is being revived at the Shalinsky District. The convent invites Orthodox young girls and women willing to devote their life to the service of God and their neighbours and all those who are ready to help the humiliated, the destitute, the abandoned and the lost.

The statute of the reviving Sts Elizabeth and Mary’s Convent is based on the statute of Sts Martha and Mary Convent founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna in Moscow.

Yekaterinburg diocesan news agency