Basilian monastery of St. Nicholas, Small Bereznev

Basilian Monastery of St. Nicholas in the Lesser Bereznev closely connected with a local legend. It is believed that it was built on the site of the village cemetery. Count allegedly Gomonay, the owner of Uzhgorod domination, which owned the land and the Small Bereznyi decided at this point to build their next outbuildings. During the excavation of the basement was found incorrupt body richly dressed girl, who by all accounts had been buried for a long time.

This fact was very impressed graph and instead he sheds built a chapel, which was the first structure of the Basilian monastery. It did not just services, but also began to learn to read all living near the boys.

Basilian Monastery of St. Nicholas in the Lesser Bereznev interest of visitors that are stored unique historical materials related to the famous Transcarpathian artist Joseph Bokshay. It is known that in 1932 the Greek-Catholic cathedral and the bishop`s chapel tabernacle were painted Bokshay. Unfortunately, all the paintings were irretrievably lost. These buildings of the monastery to our days restored. About historical paintings show only old photographs of the monastery archives.