Paygarma. Paygarm Paraskevo-Ascension Convent

Photo: Paraskevo-Voznesensky convent

The Paraskevo-Ascension Convent is an architectural monument of the 18th century. It is located in a cozy place, in the village of Paygarma. This shrine has the status of a resurgent. The monastery was built in honor of the holy martyr Paraskeva. An unusual phenomenon once happened at this place. The icon of the martyr was seen in 1865. Today the shrine acts as the main shrine of the complex. It was written in the 19th century, on Athos. In the process of its creation, particles of the saint's relics were used. God's servant is distinguished by special grace. She helps to arrange family life.

The image is also considered the patron of trade. Not far from the monastery, three springs were formed - Paraskeva Pyatnitsa with a font, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Seraphim of Sarov (mineral spring). Women suffering from infertility often turn to the key of St. Paraskeva. Here they get special assistance for the treatment of infertility and vision. There are many lakes and forests nearby. The village is picturesque.

How to get there

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Places of power

In history, there are a large number of cases when people suffering from various diseases recovered by bathing in local springs. So, in 1998, a few days before the start of Lent, a miraculous phenomenon occurred in the monastery. The well-known icon "Blessed Sky" began to stream myrrh. This phenomenon was able to see the parishioners who were present at the service at that time. Myrrh flowed from the icon. So called fragrant church oil. All those present at the service were anointed with the world.

In addition, after a certain period of time it became known that one of the parishioners was able to recover from an illness that had tormented him for years. It was a young man named Pavel Zhuvaikin. He was 12 years old. From birth, the child was blind in the left eye. After the anointing, the boy received his sight. The icon has streamed myrrh three times in its entire history - on February 27, March 1 and 8.

Paraskevo-Ascension Convent is located 35 kilometers from Saransk. Not far from the shrine there is a large railway station. The date of foundation falls on 1864. It was a local initiative. The popularity of local sources is great. They come from different regions. Local water is used for washing, part of the water is used for the bath, and part is discharged into the drain, which is located under the altar.

History of the monastery

When founding the monastery, local residents relied on information about the holiness of the Paygarm springs. The history of the Russian land is not simple. In the second half of the 18th century, it was in the power of the landowner Yeremey Struysky. He began to sell useless lands. So the wood forest went to the wealthy Mordvins. The forest area was famous for its springs. On one of them, the icon of Paraskeva appeared. A wounded soldier was subsequently able to heal from her. The soldier built a log house and led a source into it. From that moment on, for many years the path to the spring has not been overgrown. There are many people who want to visit this place.

In 1861 the wasteland was donated to the church. A monastery was opened at this place. In 1863-1865. began an active petition of the peasants to open a women's community here. The noblewoman Maria Mikhailovna Kiseleva took an active part in this process. She was able to achieve her goals. At the keys, a sister community was organized. To ensure it, Kiseleva sold 20 acres of arable land near Paygarma. Her act became an example for other rich peasants.

In total, in the end, about 46 hectares of arable land, a forest zone, stood behind the community. The construction process of the temple began in 1865. Money for the construction came from donations from various cities. At the end of the 19th century, farmsteads began to form in Penza, Saransk, St. Petersburg and other settlements.

Until 1865 there was a small chapel in Paygarm. In 1866, another chapel, Paraskevo-Pyatnitskaya, was illuminated. With the money of the people, the Ascension Church was built. In 1873, on the site of the chapel, it was decided to build a wooden church in the name of the Great Martyr Paraskeva. Inside the temple there was a key, it was set in a jug. The wooden building looked harmoniously against the backdrop of the forest. It was destroyed in the 1950s.

Today, in its place stands another monastery, created in the likeness of the previously built one. From the monastery begins a short descent to the keys and springs. There were a number of cells nearby. To the west one could see the refectory building, and from the north the hospital building. To the east stood public facilities. These were a school, a church shop, hotels for pilgrims. The central part of the monastery is mainly represented by the cathedral square.

Monastery since 1870 was completely walled with towers, in which church motifs are clearly traced. Cathedral Square formed for a long time. The whole process took several decades.

The Great Assumption Cathedral was founded in 1874. It was built over 16 years. The project was implemented in memory of the Assumption Mother of God. The exterior design resembles the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. However, notes of originality are also traced. The murals on the walls deserve special attention, which could boast of exceptional expressiveness and sophistication. It is noteworthy that some of the frescoes have been perfectly preserved to our time. The paint layer is damaged in places. The images on the walls were mercilessly damaged from firearms barbarians of the 20th century. The plaster was chipped, the icons were defiled.

The restorers had a wide range of work to do. Early 1990s many of the images were rewritten. The Assumption Cathedral is currently completely renovated. Services are regularly held there. In addition, the temple has excellent acoustic data. The interior space is bright and filled with solemnity.

The Ascension Church was erected already in 1893. The work was carried out according to the project of the architect A.E. Erenberg. If we take into account the main features, then the shrine copies the outline of the cathedral. It consists of five chapters, equipped with heating. In Soviet times, the chapters were destroyed. Subsequently, they were rebuilt. But the paintings are not yet completed. There is a fresco in the temple, which was painted over in 1950. Also of interest is the image of St. Panteleimon on a pillar. It is located from the west. Many paintings on the New Testament theme.

Monastic activity

Since the 1870s an icon-painting workshop existed at the monastery for a long time. The faces of nuns were painted in it. In the role of students were novices. All entries were marked. They attached a piece of paper on which the necessary text was written. A whole building was given over to the workshops, as they were very successful. Moreover, such areas of activity as foil stamping, tailoring, and shoemaking were developing. There was a barnyard, which was served by up to 40 workers. An apiary and a garden functioned. By 1890 the women's community has increased significantly in size. Many leading monastic complexes could envy her. Pelageya Smirnova was the head of the community. Subsequently, she was also tonsured a nun.

The monastery paid much attention to monastic activities. Under him for a long time there was an orphanage, a school, an almshouse. Orphan students were housed in a separate two-story building. The first tier was allocated for the kitchen, dining room, rooms for assistants. The orphan school was an example to follow. At all-Russian exhibitions, she won gold medals. In the 20th century, it was re-registered as an original spiritual and educational institution. There were no other similar organizations in the Volga region.

In 1918, the monastery was actively used as the headquarters of the Russian army. Subsequently, a military hospital was placed here. The nuns were sisters of mercy. Soon, the Paygarm state farm was formed on the holy lands. Its existence did not last long. Then the building was used as a regional hospital, railway warehouses. A settlement was formed on the territory of gardens and parks. The church near the cemetery and the bell tower were demolished.

The Ministry of Defense acted as the last owner. It came to the conclusion to operate the monastery as a reserve pharmacy warehouse. Both temples were divided into two tiers with the help of ceilings for the purpose of storage convenience. Moreover, the beams were screwed directly into the frescoes.

The next historical stage is significant with the formation of the Saransk diocese. The question arose of returning the monastery to believers. First, the Assumption Cathedral was returned to Orthodoxy, then the tomb and refectory, cell buildings. By 1997, a large white stone building and the house of the former hospital were returned.

Currently, more than 50 clergy live here. The monastery has been completely returned to Orthodoxy. The shrine above the spring had to be rebuilt. Ascension Church is under reconstruction. The foundation of the bell tower was recently laid.

The complex has a courtyard in Saransk - a church in the name of the Nativity of Christ of the Saransk diocese. It is distinguished by the presence of a sufficiently large income. All proceeds go to the restoration of buildings in Paygarm. The flow of tourists is large. Every year it only gets bigger. There are many young people among the visitors.

Features of the origin of the earth, Paraskeva Pyatnitsa

Paygarma in translation from Mordovian sounds like "aspen forest". Today on the territory and still there are many plantings of aspens. You can see one of them when you drive up to the Paygarm junction. It stretches to the Khovanshchina station. For some reason, in Mordovians, such a tree as aspen is not popular. Someone said that this tree is even evil. By folk beliefs evil spirits live in aspen forests. There are a large number of gods in Mordovia. Among them there are both evil and good gods. Indigenous people remember names and their character well.

Paraskeva appeared to the people from the water. She is the patroness of women, assisting in marriage and childbearing. She supports in everyday life, especially in spinning and weaving. Therefore, fabrics, canvases, linen, wool, etc. are donated to her. In the old days, all gifts were thrown into the well by people. This ceremony was called "mokrida".

The parents of the holy martyr Paraskeva, named Pyatnitsa, were Christians. They were especially concerned with the day of the Lord's suffering. When their daughter was born, they named her Paraskeva Friday. It soon becomes clear that Paraskeva began to partake of the passions of Christ. The virgin dedicated her life to the Lord. For her bold confession, the authorities imprisoned the girl and tortured her. Her pain was severe. An angel visited the virgin in the dungeon. The wounds of the martyr began to close, she recovered. Then new trials attacked the confessor. They tried to torture her with fire. But the torches caught fire and scorched the ill-wishers themselves. The saint was beheaded with a sword.

The Paygarm Monastery strikes with its large territory. It is easy to breathe and comfortable here. You can visit several churches, springs. The architecture of the objects delights with its grandeur. The blue-white color goes incredibly well with the complex. The spring water is hard and contains a lot of iron.

When visiting Paygarm, be sure to visit Saransk. If possible, you will be able to climb to the golden domes of the temple of Admiral Ushakov. From the top platform you can enjoy beautiful views of the outer surroundings. Basically only “ringers” go up there. You can arrange with them to visit the skyscraper. The city of Saransk only gets prettier every year. From a height, it is unusually beautiful. The golden domes of the temple are made using modern technologies and are of high quality.

The Paraskevo-Ascension Convent was founded in 1865. Long before the opening of the monastery, one of the inhabitants of the village of Ruzaevka, while in military service, "became very ill in his legs." Doctors soon became convinced of the hopelessness of treatment and recorded the soldier in the category of incurable. He found consolation only in constant tearful prayer to the Lord. Once in a dream a woman of heavenly beauty appeared to him in a blue robe, with a cross in her hands and said: "Do you want to be healthy and do you want to go home?" Soon the vision was repeated a second and third time. For the last time, the woman told the soldier that in three days he would be well and return home. She also told him to go to the village of Paygarmu, find a hole with water in the forest, and in it her image, and build a chapel on the source. The soldier recovered and fulfilled the order Holy Martyr Paraskeva. And people reached out to the source and began to be healed.
With the construction of the chapel, and then the church, the monastery quickly began to grow. A shelter for young orphans was opened. An icon-painting, gold-embroidering and shoemaking workshops, a library and 4 gardens were opened. Today there are more than 60 sisters in the monastery. The main icon of the monastery - Icon of the Holy Martyr Paraskeva with a particle of her relics, written on Athos in the 19th century. A bathhouse has also been built. The monastery is famous for its three healing springs: Nikolay Ugodnik, Seraphim of Sarov and the Holy Martyr Paraskeva. All three springs flow into the holy lake. The monastery is famous for its hospitality; on any day you can confess, take communion and, of course, swim in the healing miraculous water.

Attractions of the monastery

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Initially, the community owned a wooden chapel and the land around it, covered with forest. The first nuns did not even have cells for housing, and the surrounding residents were distrustful of the monastic builders. "But true ascetic life, Christian meekness and humility of nuns began to weaken this mistrust."
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In 1874 west Ascension Church a large Assumption Cathedral was laid, the construction of which took 16 years. The cathedral was designed with four pillars, five domes, two worlds, three altars (the central throne - in memory of the Assumption of the Mother of God, the side thrones - in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and in memory of the Beheading of John the Baptist).

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This is a house church at the monastery hospital, built in 1892 by Abbess Paraskeva (Smirnova). It is located in the eastern part of the two-story brick building, which stands in the northern part of the monastery, and is highlighted by a cupola. Returned to believers in 1997, renovated. The temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" is an ordinary residential building-dormitory for nuns.
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House church in the brick building of the bishop's chambers, standing in the southern part of the monastery. Established in 1904. The building survived, for many years it was occupied by the cultural center of the military unit, in the mid-2000s it was returned to believers.
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Arranged in the lower tier of the monastery bell tower, which is being built to the west of Assumption Cathedral on the model of the former multi-tiered bell tower of the 1890s, demolished in the 1930s.
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Brick one-domed chapel over the grave of the first abbess of the monastery, Abbess Paraskeva (Pelageya Smirnova), who died in 1895. It stands between the Assumption and Ascension Cathedrals. In the chapel there was a round-the-clock reading of the Psalter. Returned to believers in the early 1990s, renovated.
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The monastery venerates three springs consecrated in honor of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Great Martyr Paraskeva. Water from the third source is directed to the bath. In the middle of the temple-chapel, the spring of the Holy Martyr Paraskeva beats, and the water from it goes through the gutter to the cross behind the chapel and to the two baths nearby.
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Returned to the Paygarmsky Paraskevo-Ascension Monastery miraculous icon Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva, whose appearance once served as the reason for the founding of a convent. For almost two centuries, the image was considered lost, and its second acquisition can be considered the same miracle. The shrine was given by a native of Mordovia, who got rid of an incurable disease thanks to the icon.

Address:
431481, Republic of Mordovia
Ruzaevsky district, Paygarma village

The Paraskevo-Ascension Convent is famous for its hospitality. Here, any pilgrim, any excursion group is cordially welcomed: they will feed, provide accommodation. Some pilgrims stay at the monastery for a while. Living for several days in the monastery, the pilgrims perform the obedience work assigned to them in the garden, in the garden, in the refectory, and also attend divine services.
The monastery, headed by the abbess Abbess Angelina, is waiting for everyone whom the Lord will bring: to pray in the holy monastery, to bathe in, to work for the Glory of God, to be obedient, if possible, and to take monastic vows here.

Trips to the Paraskevo-Ascension Convent are carried out by the travel company "Family Suitcase"

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The Paygarmsky Paraskevo-Voznesensky (in the name of the Great Martyr Paraskeva and in honor of the Ascension of the Lord) convent is located 35 km from the city of Saransk, 5 km from the major railway junction station Ruzaevka, near the village of Paygarma, from which it got its name. It was founded in 1864 on the initiative of local peasants and on lands donated by the philanthropist, State Councilor Maria Mikhailovna Kiseleva. The locals noticed some peculiarities of the Paygarm surroundings in ancient times, but only in the 18th century did the popularity of the local relict waters enter the sphere of Orthodox rituals. There are three main sources: two are consecrated in memory of St. Sarafim of Sarov and saint Nicholas of Myra, and the third - in the name of the Great Martyr Paraskeva. From the first two sources, Serafimovsky and Nikolsky, water is taken for washing; from the spring of the Great Martyr Paraskeva, part of the water is directed to the baths, and part is discharged into the drain under the altar of the temple, from where water is taken for drinking.

At the foundation of the monastery, believers relied on the already established ideas about the holiness of the Paygarm springs. In the second half of the eighteenth century. the wasteland near the village of Paygarmy belonged to the Ruzaevsky landowner Yeremey Struysky. He sold useless plots to the Dyatkov landowners, who resold the firewood forest on the hills to four wealthy Mordvins. Soon, in one of the forest springs, an icon of the Great Martyr Paraskeva was revealed, from which a sick soldier who had been retired received healing. The healed man made a frame, lowered it into the spring - and since then, for two centuries now, the folk path to the source has not overgrown. After the reform of 1861, the owners of the Paygarm dachas decided to donate the wasteland to a charitable cause - to open a monastery here near springs. In 1863-65, peasants from several Mordovian villages persistently petitioned the diocesan authorities for the organization of a women's community, in which they were helped by the Penza noblewoman Maria Mikhailovna Kiseleva, who owned a considerable piece of land near Paygarma. By the end of 1864, the main burden of work on monastic affairs fell on her shoulders. M. M. Kiseleva ensured that on July 20, 1865, the Holy Synod opened a sister community with the keys. To provide for her financially, Kiseleva gave the nuns her 20 acres of arable land near Paygarma, and several other rich peasants did the same: Vasily Gubkov from Boldovo, Nikolai Roslankin, Dmitry and Peter Kostin, Semyon and Stepan Zakharov from Mordovskaya Pishli.

In total, the community turned out to have 46 acres of arable land and forest. in 1878, Emperor Alexander II contributed 75 acres of land seven miles from the monastery (the so-called "Tsar's Dacha"). Elected as the trustee of the new community, M. M. Kiseleva entrusted the construction of the monastery to the cassock nun from Kerensk Pelageya Stepanovna Smirnova. In the spring of 1865, the construction of the temple hell springs. In a few months, the number of sisters increased to 20 people, then ten more “blueberries” came to them. In 1882 the community reached 220 members. In 1895, the permanent staff consisted of 47 nuns, 8 novices, 271 living on probation, 15 old women and 36 orphans from the families of clergy lived as dependents. According to some reports, by 1915 the number of nuns, novices, and dependents reached almost 600 people. In St. Petersburg, the Paygarm sisters found support in the person of Count A. S. Apraksin and his wife, Countess Maria Dmitrievna. In Apraksin Dvor there was a chapel of the Paygarm Monastery. Money came to Paygarma from donors from Tobolsk, Moscow, Penza, Rostov-on-Don, Saransk, from the Region of the Kuban army, Pskov, Astrakhan, Kazan provinces. At the end of the XIX century. courtyards were opened in Saransk, Penza, Insar and St. Petersburg.

Insari metochion in 1909 became an independent St. Olginsky monastery. Until 1865 in Paygarm there was a small chapel over the source and two dilapidated cells. In 1866, the renovated chapel, Paraskevo-Pyatnitskaya, was consecrated. On the donations of many well-wishers in 1874, the Ascension Church was erected, later significantly expanded. Its final version is a three-altar church with a central altar in the name of the Ascension of the Lord and side altars in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God and Nicholas the Wonderworker, with five domes and a bell tower. From the outside it was sheathed with boards and painted, inside it was plastered. The iconostasis was carved from oak and covered with gold leaf. All icons of the first and second ranks were considered expensive in terms of the quality of writing. Of particular value was the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, set in a silver-gold riza with precious stones. The monastery received it as a gift from the Patriarch of Jerusalem Procopius in 1874. Among other shrines, two icons of the martyr Paraskeva were venerated - a gift from M. M. Kiseleva and the Saransk nobleman Andrei Nikolaevich Salov, who ordered this icon on Mount Athos, in the Bolgar Monastery, where the relics of the martyr Paraskeva were kept.

In 1873, instead of a chapel above the spring, benefactors cut down a small wooden church in the name of the great martyr Paraskeva; at the same time, the source, which was inside the temple, was put into a jug, and the outlet of the water was protected with a metal grate. This temple fits especially well into the overgrown fallow. Destroyed in the 1950s, it has now been restored in general terms similar to the former one. With his appearance, the ravine was transformed, the forest acquired park features. Strategically, the architectural design of the monastery was based on natural elevations. The steep descent to the pond and springs was fenced off by a number of cells, beginning with the bishop's quarters and continuing with two-story stone and stone-wood residential buildings, of which there were four.

This is the south side of the complex. WITH west side Above the ravine, the architects placed a two-story refectory building and a one-story cell building elongated in length. From the north, the square was bordered by a hospital building with an internal house church and two more buildings of cells for those “thirsty for testing”. WITH east side The monastery housed public buildings: a shop, a school, a boarding school, household services. A little further, outside the walls, Abbess Paraskeva built two hotels for pilgrims. The entire central part of the monastery is the cathedral square, the heart of the community is two temples, a tomb and a bell tower.

By the mid-1870s, the entire monastery was already surrounded by a wall with corner towers imitating temple motifs. Cathedral Square took shape for a long time, more than two decades.

In 1874, to the west of the Ascension Church, a large Assumption Cathedral was laid, the construction of which took 16 years. The cathedral was designed with four pillars, five domes, two lights, three altars (the central altar in memory of the Assumption of the Mother of God, the side altars in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and in commemoration of the Beheading of John the Baptist). In appearance, it is similar to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, but has features of deep originality. The murals of the cathedral were distinguished by their exceptional beauty and monumentality. Some of the frescoes have survived to this day, having lost only a small part of the paint layer: the barbarians of the twentieth century shot at the faces with rifles, scraped out the eyes of the saints with knives, and in places beat off pieces of plaster.

The restorers restored and partly rewrote the murals in the late 1990s. The cathedral has been repaired, brought back to normal, there is a service in it; the acoustic data of the temple is magnificent, and the interior space, penetrated by five pillars of light from five chapters, is filled with the triumph of the spirit.

The second, already stone Ascension Church was founded in 1893 according to the project of the Penza diocesan architect A. E. Erenberg, immediately after the completion of construction work in the Assumption Cathedral, exactly along its axis, behind the apses, forty or fifty meters to the east. In general terms, the Ascension Church repeated the outline of the cathedral, but this was not a mechanical copying - although the new temple was erected according to the eclectic method, the architect did not allow the thoughtless transfer of standard solutions. Architecturally, the Church of the Ascension is not far from the usual "Ton" five-domed, but the goal of the nuns was to get a winter church, the heating of which did not require large financial costs. Now the domes of the temple, destroyed in Soviet times, have been restored, but the murals are still waiting in the wings. There is one fresco in the temple, painted over in the 1950s, but more and more clearly showing through the paint without the intervention of restorers.

Of the murals of the temple, the most interesting is the image of St. Panteleimon on the pillar, and on the western wall, at the top, there are three large paintings on New Testament themes: the Transfiguration in the left aisle, the Resurrection in the central nave and the Ascension in the right aisle. In these paintings, the hand of nuns-painters who tried their hand at wall paintings is visible. In addition to the three main temples, by the beginning of the twentieth century. a few more appeared: in 1892, a wooden church was built in the name of All Saints (Vsesvyatskaya) on the cemetery that arose; with an increase in staff to 300-350 people. house churches appeared in the hospital in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (1892), in the bishop's chambers - Archangel Michael, in the rector's building - in the name of the Great Martyr Paraskeva. The ensemble was crowned with a 50-meter bell tower. In 1895-97, a chapel was erected over the grave of the original abbess Paraskeva, between the Assumption and Ascension churches, the so-called. tomb.

Since the late 1870s, an icon-painting workshop has been fruitfully working in the monastery, in which at first three nuns painted faces, in 1882 there were already seven novice students with the craftswomen, and by the end of the century the number of artists had grown to fifteen people. All icons were marked with a special brand of the monastery - a piece of paper with the appropriate text; the stamp was glued to the back of the icons written on the boards. According to the data of the 1880s, several workshops were successfully operating: the whole building was given to the cells of gold embroiderers, and 20 samples worked in another building, engaged in foil stamping. In addition, tailoring, dyeing, shoemaking, saddlery, and furrier crafts developed. A large barnyard served up to 40 people, there was an apiary, a garden, a park and three farms. By the early 1890s, the Paigarm women's community had outgrown most of the women's monasteries not only in Penza, but also in many neighboring dioceses in terms of size, staff and importance. Therefore, the official recognition of the community as a monastery (Decree of the Synod of April 18, 1884) only legitimized the existing state of affairs. The head of the community, Pelageya Smirnova, was then tonsured into a mantle and elevated to the rank of abbess. The monastery was famous for its charity.

At the monastery there was an orphanage with a school, an almshouse, a school for coming peasant girls, a mixed school for peasant children (at the All Saints Church), as well as a school in the village. Lemzha (now Streletskaya Sloboda, Ruzaevsky district of the Republic of Moldova). To accommodate orphans and teachers, a special two-story building was built, on the first floor of which there was a dining room, a kitchen and a room for inspectors-nuns who looked after the children, and on the second floor there were bedrooms for about 40 pupils and apartments for a teacher and her assistant. The orphan school of the monastery received gold medals at all-Russian exhibitions of church enlightenment. In the beginning. 20th century the orphan school was reorganized into a school-church - an original spiritual and educational institution that had no analogues in the Volga region. In 1918 the monastery was chosen as the headquarters of the 1st Revolutionary Army, as well as the location of a military hospital. The nuns became sisters of mercy. In 1919, the Paygarm state farm was formed on the lands of the monastery, which existed for a very short time. After the collapsed state farm, the monastery housed a district hospital, some of the buildings were occupied by railway warehouses, including the Ascension Church. A settlement grew up on the site of the gardens and part of the park, the cemetery church, the temple over the spring, the bell tower, walls and entrance towers went to be demolished.

The last owner of the monastery was the Ministry of Defense, which placed reserve pharmacy warehouses in Paygarm. Both stone temple for the convenience of storing the boxes with preparations, they were cut by ceilings into two floors, and I-beams metal beams were embedded directly into the frescoes. With the organization of the Saransk diocese, the question arose of returning the monastery to believers. The Ministry of Defense first returned the Assumption Cathedral, the tomb and the building of the former refectory, then the Ascension Church, several cell buildings of the southern row. In the second half of 1997, the nuns returned to the large stone building of the western part of the complex and the building of the former monastery hospital, which lost the head of the house church, but retained the apse. Today, more than fifty nuns live, work and pray in the Paygarm Monastery. The Assumption Cathedral was restored to life, the church over the source was rebuilt, the Ascension Church was being restored, the foundation of the bell tower was laid. The monastery has a courtyard in Saransk - a church in the name of the Nativity of Christ, converted from a household annex to a typical high-rise building in the North-Western microdistrict. The temple has a large parish, and all proceeds go to the restoration of the Paygarm buildings. A vivid indicator of the new “recognition” of the ancient monastery is the flow of pilgrims, growing from day to day, and there are especially many young people, schoolchildren and students in Paygarm.

Convent, located at the revered since the XVIII century. Pyatnitsky source. Founded in 1865 by noblewoman M. M. Kiseleva and novice P. S. Smirnova (later Abbess Paraskeva) as a women's community, in 1884 received the status of a monastery. To the beginning 20th century a populous monastery with a large farm, schools, an orphanage, a hospital and an almshouse. Closed at the beginning 1920s The buildings were occupied by a hospital, then warehouses, a military unit, the fence and the bell tower were broken. Restoration work has been underway since 1994.

The Paraskevo-Voznesensky convent is widely known not only in Mordovia, but also abroad. This explains the attention paid to the monastery by the highest persons. In June 2005, the monastery was visited by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (now His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'). In the same year, fonts were built and consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. Seraphim of Sarov.

In 2006 he came to Paygarm His Holiness Patriarch Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II.

At present, the Paraskevo-Ascension Convent continues to be equipped: in 2008, the construction of the bell tower began, in January 2010, a temple was consecrated in honor of the Holy Martyr Paraskeva.

Many pilgrims from all corners of our Fatherland, as well as from abroad, come to this holy monastery to bow to the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva, the patroness of these places, to partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, to partake in monastic labors and prayer, to bathe in the healing epiphany springs. They find here grace-filled healing in illnesses and help in their labors and worries. The monastery welcomes everyone with love and tries to help everyone in spiritual needs.

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Cathedrals No. 17594 - Paygarmsky Paraskevo-Ascension Convent

Temples of Russia No. 13335 - Paraskevo-Voznesensky Paygarm Convent (1884)

Convent, located at the revered since the XVIII century. Pyatnitsky source. Founded in 1865 by noblewoman M. M. Kiseleva and novice P. S. Smirnova (later Abbess Paraskeva) as a women's community, in 1884 received the status of a monastery. To the beginning 20th century a populous monastery with a large farm, schools, an orphanage, a hospital and an almshouse. Closed at the beginning 1920s The buildings were occupied by a hospital, then warehouses, a military unit, the fence and the bell tower were broken. Restored in 1994.