Kamenny Monastery
Kamenny Monastery (Russian: Спасо-Преображенский Свято-Каменный монастырь) was the name of a Russian Orthodox monastery situated on a small eponymous island in the very centre of the Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is distinguished as the first stone monastery of the Russian North.
Kamenny Monastery in 2013 | |
Location within Russia | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Orthodox |
| Established | c. 1260 |
| Disestablished | 1925 |
| Diocese | Vologda |
| Site | |
| Location | Vologda, Russia |
| Coordinates | 59°36′27″N 39°34′22″E |
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