Constantine and Helen Monastery

The Constantine and Helen Monastery in Zelenogorsk was established by a decision of the Synod on October 6, 2006, based on a monastic community created at the church on May 11 of the same year. The complex includes several churches: a single-domed Church of Constantine and Helen with a bell tower on a hill, a St. Nicholas Church with frescoes in the style of the Dionysius school, and a Church of the Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos with reinforced concrete arches at the base of the dome, which repeats the idea of the Naval Kronstadt Cathedral. The St. Nicholas Church houses particles of the relics of the righteous Joachim and Anna and the Great Martyr Panteleimon, while the Church of the Praise houses a particularly revered 17th-century copy of the icon of the Queen of All, painted by the monk Ephraim (Makarov). The facade of one of the churches depicts Prince Vladimir of Novgorod, since, according to legend, these lands in ancient times were part of the Vodskaya Pyatina of the Novgorod Principality.