Pechenga Monastery

Luostari, Russia · built 1533

The Pechenga Monastery (Finnish: Petsamon luostari, Norwegian: Petsjengaklosteret) is and has been for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world. It was founded in 1533 at the influx of the Pechenga River into the Barents Sea, 135 km west of modern Murmansk, by St. Tryphon, a monk from Novgorod.

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