Raifa Monastery

The main shrine of the monastery - the icon of Our Lady of Georgia - and to this day is known as a miraculous healing of the infirm and grants: blind sight returned, besnuyuschimsya comes clean, and the lame are corrected.

Raif is considered the founder monk Filaret. Skite on spaces of Russia, zabrel it to clean the lake in the dead wood and decided to settle here to serve God in silence and alone. Soon, with Filaret appeared admirers and followers, some settled nearby. For example, in 1600 - 1610 years there inocheskaya deserts. Once prividelos one of the monks of a miracle that stretches from the cloud hand, which pointed to a place in the woods, and poslyshalsya toll. Upon learning about this, suggested Philaret to build a chapel to serve the morning and evening, what had been done.
Already in the mid-18 th century, according to the Kazan diocese, Raifa in the desert, there were 15 stone temples. In 1794 was built on the site came in disrepair after lightning church in the name of the Last Court of the Lord, "dependent" godly Kazan meschanki Hope Kisseleva Martyr Church in the name of Faith, Hope and Love and their mother Sofia. It is all right, high, and go to temple only on the narrow stairs.
In 1842 the project of famous architect MP Corinth instead come to the dilapidated state of the first stone in the monastery church in the name of the Georgian Mother of God was completed construction of a new same stone cathedral, which became the seat of the main holy monastery - miraculous image of Our Lady of Georgia. And the fact that the miraculous icon was here imposed on the church a divine imprint - in the performance of church hymns you hear a voice here, sounding an entire octave above and does not belong to anyone of the participants in the choir.
Once the monastery monks Raifa Bogoroditsky asked for God's mercy - to save them from the croak of frogs, prevent them from singing. Choir monks famous far beyond the limits of Kazan. Charming sounds recorded in the chatty, vmurovannyh in the monastery walls, staggering to echo a lot of miles to carry the district. But the pauses in the atmosphere of beauty violated singing their sinless, and yet totally intolerable competitors, which the monks did not wish death and nemosti. There was a miracle and frogs have fallen silent. And silent now, while on the shores of the enchanting lake, which is Raifa Bogoroditsky monastery they found in abundance. Many people, including foreign scientists have tried to razvenchat this myth. Bring here the French frogs, which are near the monastery walls zamolkali. Taken to explore the monastic frogs. But in one kilometer from the Monastery of excited they started to jump, and then poured raskatistym loud croak. The silence of frogs - the miracle being faced by each visitor Raif.
Years of civil war marked the beginning of decline Rayfskoy the monastery. First, there were deserters who steal livestock, property, church money, and utensils. How to write Raifa brethren in the report Епархиальному Board in December 1918: "Desert totally looted, ravaged and destroyed, not a single horse and cows are not left behind, some were left blank wall .. and are fed by Christ's sake." When caught beschinnikov of local peasants, then cut them into pieces of reproach and sanctities of Christ. In the monastery, for the massacre of monks, was sent to the Red squad. Although monks in the massacre of the looters had no relations. And, again fled to surrounding villages and rural peasants, and did not shoot the monks, and when, to the rebel village of Belo Anhydrous arrived punitive detachment of 250 people in the village and the monastery was already empty: men took refuge in forests, but the monks razbrelis Middle Deserts . And an end to the monastery Raifa, yes intervened professor at Kazan University: in 1919 appeared in the forest department, which was vyproshena abode in nearby forests. The monastery left alone, and returning brethren resumed service to God. In 1921, in continuation of the initiatives of faculty, there was laid dendrosad, which is currently more than 400 species of tree and shrub plantings in North America, Western Europe and Asia.
Vozrozhdeniye Raifa monastery began in 1990 when hegumen Vsevolod served the prior of the Peter and Paul Church Zelenodolsk city began to bother opening the monastery. It was his monastery owes its second birth. At the present time in the convent convent built hotel and a small chapel with a blue dome over the holy source of water which, according to scientists recognized healing. Notably, the chapel was consecrated on the source of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II in September 1997.
Monastery of the fall of grace, creates a sense of the sacred ground of truth and those blessed with light and attracts the faithful and people just emerging on the spiritual path.