Convent of St. Anne, Vashkovtsy
An interesting tourist site is located near the city Vashkivtsi. Monastery of St. Anne - one of the youngest in Bukovina. During its short history the monastery managed to become one of the main Orthodox shrines area.
The history of the monastery of St. Anne
The first mention of a settlement of monks on the territory of mountains stretching from the time of the Galicia-Volyn principality. However, Annino mountain healed glory holy place already at the time of Turkish rule over Bukovina, with which is associated a whole legend.
The first wooden church was set on top of a mountain after a cholera epidemic in 90 years of the 19th century. Vashkivchany retell the story when the village widened terrible disease, one resident had a dream in which the Virgin Mary Annino pointed to the mountain and said that to overcome the epidemic should pray for 2 weeks at the top. Farmers and had returned, according to legend, the epidemic is stopped.
The current monastery was on Mount 1992, when the first nuns settled on the mountain. The monastery began to grow rapidly in 1994 began to build the Cathedral of St. Anne, and in 1997 the nuns were already full cell. Today the monastery is already built and fully functioning. Constantly there are about 20 sisters.
What to see in the monastery of St. Anne
In addition to modern monastery complex, the monastery has many Orthodox relics. Here is a unique ancient icons "God Almighty," which nuns handed philanthropist, bought it in Germany.
For pilgrims in the monastery of St. Anne display of the relics of St. Nicholas, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. John Chrysostom, St. Job of Pochayiv - the most revered Orthodox saints.
How to get there
The monastery is located near the city Vashkivtsi Vyzhnytsya area. It can be reached by regular buses from Chernivtsi , Kolomyya and Ivano-Frankivsk do Vyzhnytsia. If you travel by own transport, you should turn from the road H-10 Ivano-Frankivsk - Chernivtsi village Beregomet aside Vyzhnytsia and village Hlynytsya - right into the side Vashkivtsi .
Hours: always open monastery.
