Андреевский мужской монастырь в Пленницах расположенный в Москве, у подножья Воробьёвых гор.

Tradition places the founding of the monastery "at the Sparrow Hills, in Plennitsy" in the 13th century, but the earliest documentary evidence of it dates back only to the mid-16th century. Until the end of the 16th century, the monastery was called the Transfiguration Hermitage. The miraculous deliverance of Moscow from the invasion of the Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey in 1591, which occurred on the feast day of the Martyr Andrew Stratelates, inspired Muscovites to build a wooden church at the monastery, and then, in 1675, a stone gate church in honor of the Holy Martyr Andrew Stratelates. From that time on, the monastery became known as the St. Andrew's Monastery. The St. Andrew's Monastery's particular flourishing is associated with the founding of a learned brotherhood within its walls by the boyar Fyodor Mikhailovich Rtishchev (+1673). It is now an active monastery. #travel #oldplace #history #wheretogofortheweekend #holyplace #travelingwithSalevtina #travel #monasteries #monasteriesofrussia #moscow #andreevskymonastery #templesofrussia #templesofmoscow