Holy Trinity Monastery in Smolensk

The monastery on Bolshaya Sovetskaya Street appeared in the second half of the seventeenth century, soon after Smolensk returned to Russia, on the site of a Uniate archbishop's residence. The Trinity Cathedral and the free-standing turquoise bell tower with its clock command the whole lower stretch of the street as it drops towards the Dnieper. The community was dissolved in the Soviet years, and the churches were handed back to the church in the 1990s.

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