Epiphany Monastery

By the order of Ivan the Terrible, the monastery became a collection facility for metayage, quitrent, and fodder.

In 1632, the Epiphany monastery was granted an exclusive right for tax free floating of a certain amount of building materials and firewood.

Vasili III, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, the Romodanovsky boyars, Xenia Repnina, and others donated some of their sizeable estates to the monastery.

A splendid specimen of the Muscovite baroque style, it incorporated some notable medieval sepulchres.

In 1788, the Epiphany monastery was proclaimed a residence of the vicarian bishop of the Moscow bishopric.

The monastic facilities were first transformed into a campus for students of the Mining Academy and workers, engaged in the subway construction, and later - into metalworks.

The northwestern part of the Kitai gorod . The Epiphany Monastery may be seen in the foreground.
The katholikon was built between 1693 and 1696.
The Greek government presented to the monastery a bronze statue of the Greek Lichud brothers , the founders of the Slavic Greek Latin Academy