Afanasevskiy Monastery

The Afanasevskiy men's monastery is situated on Chelyuskintsev Square in Yaroslavl. Founded in 1613, after being closed in 1925 it was used for administrative purposes by a furniture factory. In 2005, the churches were returned to the RPTS. Behind the monastery there is a Znamenskaya church with an icon of the Znamenie Bogoroditsy. Before the revolution, it belonged to the third class. It was part of an important entrance to the medieval city. The keller dormitories remain under secular organization.