St Michael Monastery
St Michael Monastery is a female Orthodox Monastery founded in 1839 near Odesa's port. The church and surrounding buildings were rebuilt in the 1960s after being bombed in previous decades.
About this building
The monastery was closed and largely destroyed by the Soviets as a "revolutionary place". In the 1940s the monastery was transferred back to the community of nuns. After serving as a place of worship for two decades, it was expropriated agian and used as a tuberculosis hospital. Most of the monastery buildings were already in a poor state by then and had to be reconstructed.
The current monastery complex includes the church and several reconstructed buildings that used to serve as a hospital, a refectory for the poor and a school for orphan girls. It is also home to Odesa's Christian Museum. It is inhabited by a community of nuns.
