Krehivskyy monastery

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The first historical mention of the village dates from 1456 Krekhiv year. The monastery, according to popular legend, was founded by Joel and Sylvester end of the sixteenth century. They settled in a forest cave, and on top of rocks built two chapels: Protection and St.. Peter and Paul. In the first half of the seventeenth century. the monastery moved to the place where the modern St. Nicholas Monastery OSBM. Here was built the church of the Holy Trinity, St. tower. Nicholas, the great church of the Transfiguration, ancillary structures erected around the monastery Murovanye fortifications, dug and filled with water deep ditch, poured shaft. During this period, the monastery had its own printing press, a large library of old, icon-painting and craft shops. 1627 Charter signed for monks monastic life.