Bell Tower of Strastnoy Monastery, Moscow
The Strastnoy Monastery is a Moscow convent founded in 1654 in the Earthen City at the gates of the White City in Moscow. Since 1919, various organizations have been housed in the monastery, including the Central Anti-Religious Museum of the Union of Atheists of the USSR. In 1937, all the buildings of the monastery were demolished. There is a monument to Alexander Pushkin on the site of the destroyed Passion Monastery. The Moscow Passion Monastery was named after the Passion Icon of the Mother of God. According to legend, thanks to her, a woman in Nizhny Novgorod was cured. After healing by order of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov in 1641, the icon was brought to Moscow from the Nizhny Novgorod estate of Prince Lykov — the village of Palitsy. She was solemnly greeted at the Tver Gate of the White City. In 1646, a five-domed temple with gilded iron crosses was built at the meeting place, in which a miraculous icon was placed. The construction of the church was completed already under Alexei Mikhailovich.
