Conception Convent

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The Conception Convent or Zachatyevsky Monastery () is a Russian Orthodox stauropegic convent on the northern bank of the Moskva River in Khamovniki District of Moscow. The convent was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and did not reopen until 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monastery
date from: 1360

Source: en.wikipedia.org