1 ruble 2014 The Holy Ascension Novo-Nyametsky Monastery

Transnistria. 1 ruble 2014. Holy Ascension Novo-Nyametsky Monastery.

The Holy Ascension Novo-Nyametsky (Kitskan) Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in the Transnistrian village of Kitskany on the right bank of the Dniester River 6 km south of Tiraspol. The monastery belongs to the Moldavian metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The history of the monastery is closely connected with the Nyametsk Lavra, which was one of the largest medieval centers of Moldavian culture and education. After the monks of laurels were forbidden to conduct worship in Church Slavonic, they fled to Bessarabia and in 1859 here, in Kitskan, founded the Novo-Nyametsky monastery.

The monastery ensemble includes four churches: the Holy Ascension Cathedral (summer), the Assumption Church (winter), the Nikolsky Temple (Seminary), the Cross-Vozdvizhensky (refectory). To the temple leads an oak alley with carved in the trunks figures of novices. In addition to temples and brotherly cells in the monastery there are hotels for pilgrims, a church museum, a library in which documents, miniatures and old books of the 15th-19th centuries, a printing house and an icon painting workshop have survived to this day.

The monastery bell tower was the highest in Moldavia. It has 69 meters in height and consists of five tiers. It is often compared with the bell tower of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Obverse: in the center - an image of the State Emblem of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika; on a circle - inscriptions: at the top - "TRANSNISTRIAN REPUBLICAN BANK", at the bottom - "1 РУБЛЬ"; in the lower part under the coat of arms - "2014".

Reverse: in the center - the image of the monastery, above it - the inscription "1864-2014", at the top in a circle - the inscription "The Holy New-Nezametsky Monastery".

Release Date: Nov 25, 2014