🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BITCOIN ISLAND LIFE- https://image.nostr.build/ae36ec1fd46f8b8869d5d7ab3c61d3538dd41a8b40d1cc2ea6182ca8e3773f10.jpg Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas, Russia . https://image.nostr.build/36bd98812970c6efed9b49f9148112fadef0bc482899e9a9b6d847fcfc19c7e9.jpg The Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas, also known as the Belaya Gora Monastery, is located on top of a hill in Belaya Gora or the White Mountains, in Russia, at a distance of 85 kilometers from the city of Perm, and about 50 kilometers away from the town of Kungur The monastery is dominated by a beautiful white church with gold onion domes topped by golden crosses. During winter, the white structure becomes indistinguishable from the snowy surroundings. https://image.nostr.build/6262aa5ed6a3b1607a6a43ef29a363415806dadf81f3c2945e76b5fc6a1e7273.jpg The original wooden church and monastery were built in 1894, and housed some 25 orphan boys who received education in reading, writing, church singing and various crafts. When the building burned down, construction of a new two-story stone church began in June 1902, and it went on for the next fifteen years. During those years, some four hundred monks lived within the grounds, and helped in the monastery's construction by making the bricks at the monastery brickworks. They also practiced agriculture, animal husbandry, bee-keeping and fishing. https://image.nostr.build/eba499a6154bb122af5bcd94a5fa5d2cbebbb2b8752c7bd1ad5459963e2a6a53.jpg When the monastery was completed in 1917, it had rooms for 8000 people and was equipped with a ventilation and steam heating system. Inside the church, the high-arching ceiling and walls were covered with classical Russian Orthodox paintings and icons of saints and religious scenes accentuated with gold. Its official consecration ceremony was attended by 30,000 people. The Belogorsky Monastery Cathedral became Perm diocese’s most magnificent church. Then one day in 1918, Bolsheviks arrived at the monastery, shot the Archimandrite (Abbot) and threw him in the Kama River. They broke the great bells of the monastery and destroyed many works of art. Many monks lost their lives trying to prevent the destruction and some were lined up against the church walls and executed. https://image.nostr.build/19a9a979ffb2d095cfe2a009520b9b42e44f45209cd2c8af9aa15f9d49f084e1.jpg Many monks were deported in the 1930s and the monastery buildings were used as a camp for the politically repressed and the forcibly relocated and finally, as a home for the disabled. During the Second World War it became a rehabilitation center for the wounded and the crippled in the war. It served as a house for invalids and the mentally unstable until 1986. In 1980, a mental patient almost bought the entire building down when he set fire to the roof. The cathedral was badly damaged and almost all the cathedral’s domes were burnt. In 1993, work began to restore the building and has been going on ever since. The final phase of the restoration began in 2011. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️ #Bitcoin #Freedom #Apocalypse #Music #Movies #Philosophy #Literature #dogstr #islands #scuba #marinelife #architecture