The time of the foundation of the Nikolo-Volosov Monastery is unknown. The earliest information about the Volosovo Monastery dates back to the 15th century. There are many places in Russia where the ancient temples of the pagan god Veles were replaced by Nikolsky temples and monasteries. One of them is not far from Vladimir, in a village called Volosovo. The nuns who lived in the monastery know the legend that their monastery was originally built on the site of the destroyed temple of the god Veles. According to one legend, the Nikolsky Church was initially built on a mountain, on the site of a pagan temple, but the miraculous icon of St. Nicholas of Myra, which was in it, disappeared from the built temple several times and each time ended up in a lowland near the Kolochka River, hanging on a tree by its hair. The temple had to be moved to the place chosen by the icon. Soon a monastery was built there, and the village began to be called Velesovo. In the 17th century, the first stone building was built in the monastery - the Church of St. Sergius. In addition to the main altar, consecrated in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, there was also an aisle church in the name of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helena. At the beginning of the 18th century, Peter I began to reduce the number of monasteries, the income of which he intended to use for the needs of the state. Small monasteries, where the number of monks did not exceed 30 people, were either merged with other monasteries or completely closed. In 1722, by decree of the Holy Synod, the Lyubetsky Dormition Monastery and the Pokrovsky Monastery on the Nerl River were assigned to the Nikolaevsky Volosov Monastery. From 1725 to 1727, the Kosmin Monastery was attached to the Volosov Monastery as a small brotherhood. In 1763, the Pokrovskaya Gate Church was built. The Pokrovsky Church stood unconsecrated for a long time and gradually began to collapse. The church consisted of only walls, which between the church itself and the extension that had once been built to it, due to the fragility of the rubble, had separated. In the 1890s, the church was restored thanks to a peasant from the village of Stavrovo, Yakov Ivanovich Busurin, who decided to help the nearby monastery restore the gate church, which was collapsing with each passing day. On September 21, 1893, the solemn consecration of the newly built church was held by Bishop Tikhon of Murom, who was then in charge of the Volosov Monastery. It is important to note here that from the middle of the 19th century until 1909, the monastery was not fully functioning. Only in 1909 was the Volosovsky Monastery converted into a convent.
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