Siya Monastery
63°33′08″N 41°33′27″E / 63.5520861°N 41.5576361°E
The Siya Monastery of St. Antonius (Antonievo-Siysky Monastery,
The monastery takes its name from the Siya River, a tributary of the Northern Dvina. This river route allowed the monks to travel to the Solovetsky Monastery and other centres of spiritual life. There was also a station on the trade route connecting Archangel (the main sea port of Muscovy) and the Russian capital of Moscow.
Following the saint's death in 1556, the monastery grew on the salt trade with Western Europe and developed into one of the foremost centres of Christianity in the Russian North. Ivan the Terrible and his son Feodor granted it important privileges and much land. By 1579, the monastery owned 50 versts of ploughlands stretching towards Kargopol.
In 1599,
In the 17th century, the monastery continued to prosper. The large
In 1923, the monastery was disbanded. Both library and treasury were taken to Moscow or Arkhangelsk. The medieval buildings were used as a sanatorium and a kolkhoz. The monks were readmitted to the grounds in 1992 and immediately began emergency repair works.
External links
Media related to Antonievo-Siysky Monastery at Wikimedia Commons- Official Web-site of Antonievo-Siysky Monastery(in Russian)
- Monastery webpage (in Russian)
- Venerable Anthony the Abbot of Siya, Novgorod Orthodox synaxarion(in English)
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