Pokrov monastery in Turkowice

The Monastery of Holy Mother of God is a female Orthodox monastery in Turkowice, part of the Diocese of Lublin and Chełm of the Polish Orthodox Church. The monastery was established in 1903 as one of the non-contemplative monasteries founded in the western dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church with the support of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna. Turkowice was chosen as the site for the monastery due to the local Ukrainian population's veneration of the Turkowice Icon of the Mother of God. The nuns primarily engaged in social work: they ran schools, a hospital, a pharmacy, and an orphanage. The monastery was also intended to strengthen Orthodox and Russian cultural influence in the territories incorporated into the Russian Empire following the partitions of Poland. It was an important pilgrimage destination. The monastery functioned until the nuns left for refuge during World War I, from which most did not return. In the interwar period, the Polish Orthodox Church unsuccessfully attempted to restore the monastery. A few nuns who returned from Russia first lived in the village and then in nearby Sahryń. Meanwhile, the monastery buildings housed charitable institutions run by the Sisters Servants, and after their dissolution during the Polish People's Republic, a farming school operated there. The monastic cathedral was demolished in the 1920s, and the second

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