Solovetsky Monastery

Solovetsky Monastery

Also known as Соловецкий монастырь

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Year

1557

Type

building

The Solovetsky Monastery occupies Bolshoy Solovetsky Island in the White Sea, a fortified Russian Orthodox monastic complex whose stone-and-boulder enclosure forms an elongated pentagon over four hectares. Monastic life on the island began …

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