• Yuriev monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church December 25, 1991. Since 1995, St. George was resumed monastic cloister.
  • Like other ancient Russian churches, St. George's Cathedral of the Yuriev Monastery near Novgorod is made as a large front building.
  • St. George (Yuriev, in Russian) Monastery is located in the surroundings of Veliky Novgorod, an historical town 200km far from St. Petersburg.
  • GPS: 58.48686700, 31.28473800. You can get to St. George monastery from the central railway and bus station or the bus stop «Sennaya sq.» on buses № 7, 7A.
  • Archbishop Leo is its rector. So, St. Yuriev Monastery in Veliky Novgorod is a beautiful complex of churches with a rich history.
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  • Yuriev Monastery suffered the fate of most Orthodox Church property in Russia after the government of Russia was taken over by the Bolsheviks.
  • The St. George's (Yuriev) Monastery. Yur'yevskoye Shosse, 10, Veliky Novgorod, Novgorodskaya oblast', 173010•8 (816) 277-30-20.
  • The St. George's (Yuriev) Monastery is usually cited as Russia's oldest monastery. It was used to be the most important in the medieval Novgorod Republic.