Padansky Convent of the Presentation in the Temple

Subject / Religion. Church/Monasteries and convents
The Padansky Convent of the Presentation in the Temple (the Podporozhye district). It was founded about 1543 as the Verkhopadansky Cornelius Monastery (Hermitage) of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and was closed in 1764. It was reestablished in 1872 as a woman scete, from 1892 it worked as a woman community, from 1900 it became a convent. In 1919 there were 70 nuns in the convent; there were 3 churches, a chapel and 5 dwelling wooden houses. The convent owned 309 desyatinas (about 700 acres) of land. The convent was closed in the early 1920s; nuns were organised in an agricultural artel. In 1929 buildings were passed to the kolkhoz ""Krasny Mayak"". The wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is the oldest among monastery churches (it was built between 1496 and 1563). In 1676 the new wooden church was constructed on the place of the old one, about 1790 it was removed to the village of Vinnitsi. The wooden church of Saint Alexander of Svir was built about 1587, in 1688 the new wooden church was built on the place of the old one; from 1764 it became the parish church, it was burned in the early 19th century. In 1603 the wooden church of the Presentation in the Temple of the Mother of God was built, from 1764 it became the parish church and was rebuilt in 1832, in 1905 the church was transformed in a chapel and closed on 9 July 1931, not survived by the present days. The second wooden church of the Presentation in the Temple of the Mother of God with the side-chapel of Saint Cornilius Padansky was constructed in the early 20th century, it was closed on 9 July 1931 and passed for using as a club, not survived. The wooden church with the same name was built in 1993-1994. In 1894 the wooden church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God with side-chapels of Venerable Hoshea, Saint Ioann of Novgorod, Saint Martha, St. Martyr Aquilina, Venerable Ioann Rylsky, Saint Nicholas and Martyr Alexandra was built, it was closed on 9 July 1931, not survived. In 1898 the wooden church of Saint Panteleimon and Saint Nazarius was built in the monastery scete (the village of Shakshezero, now it is a nonresidential area at the Shakshezerka River); it was closed on 13 July 1929, passed to a kolkhoz for using as a common centre, not survived. In 1993 the Cornelius Padansky Woman Monastic Community of the Presentation in the Temple was established. Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Leningrad Oblast, the/Podporozhye District/Padano, settlement
Topographical landmarks/Shakshezerka River, the
Historical Toponyms/Shakshezero, Village
Leningrad Oblast, the/Podporozhye District/Vinnitsi Village
Земля Невская Православная: Краткий церковно-исторический справочник / Науч. ред. В.В. Антонов. СПб., 2006.