hotel, a pilgrims’ house, monastery shops, in october the monastery spiritual and educational center kovchegated, this is a new building, it it took about 10 years to build, and now it’s finally completed. cultural and church meetings and educational ones take place on the territory of this center, everything in our monastery is a communal monastery for squirrels, they live here and come and we feed them with nuts at feeders like these, but people are not embarrassed at all. today there are five churches on the territory of the monastery; they are very different, each beautiful in its own way. this is a mosaic panel, it was made in honor of the visit to our monastery by the penultimate patriarch of all russia, alexei ii. this was the last temple that he illuminated abroad for the sovereign icon of the mother of god. it's not a stone, it's boiled glass coated with pigment. gold film , if we go into the temple, it is made in the byzantine style, we will see this huge square, domes, lined with these small pieces of mosaic, this temple is the festive temple of the monastery, well , sort of the m