Monastic Island .

The historic core of the city, a favorite vacation spot of townspeople. According to legend, in the XI century. here there was a Byzantine monastery, in which Princess Olga waited a storm on the way to Constantinople. A memorial cross in honor of Byzantine monks, built at Cape Nicholas Church ( 1999). In Soviet times, is a monument to T.Shevchenko, open zoo , a park rides for children .

 

surface of the water among the Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk located within a few islands. The most famous island - Monastery (in Soviet times it was called - Komsomolsk ).In the upper rocky , sandy behind , the island was the site of the century a halt on a complex commercial or military way of the Dnieper.

 

This island, crescent enveloping the main city of Dnipropetrovsk hill - a place of its kind unique and mysterious.

 

Bishop Theodosius says that in the I century AD, there had to stop at the exit of Kherson , traveling different places in Kiev , the holy Apostle Andrew the First Called .

 

The legend that the Apostle Andrew Sia went to the mountains , gradually becomes a no less fascinating narrative that is already on the island in the IX century, suddenly took shelter from the weather the Greek (Byzantine ) monks , natives from Constantinople. They founded a monastery here , which had existed for several centuries until the Mongol invasion .And the very name of the monastery island was like as of this monastery .

 

In ancient times, was the Dnieper water part of the famous route from the Varangians to the Greeks. The territory was the scene before a threshold concentration of people and goods. Here the loads , which floated with water , transported to shore and transported to the end of the rapids by land .

 

in 1960 . aerial tramway connected the island with the right bank of Komsomolsk .

 

In 1999, at the northern tip of the island appeared a remarkable building - the church of St. Nicholas. Very well chosen and the project location and features of the building.The white church with golden dome can be seen very well from many points and was one of the recognized symbols of the new Dnepropetrovsk.

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