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Six years after St. Tryphon's death in 1583, the wooden monastery was raided and burnt down by the Swedes on December 25, 1589. It is said that the raid claimed the lives of 51 monks and 65 lay brothers, bringing the history of Tryphon's establishment to an end. This revenge raid, and was part of the
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to Christianity and to demonstrate how faith could flourish in the most inhospitable lands. His example was eagerly followed by other Russian monks. By 1572, the Pechenga Monastery counted about 50 brethren and 200 lay followers.
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accelerated in the late 19th century, the Pechenga Monastery was restored at its original location in 1886. Prior to the
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monastery continued to flourish when Pechenga became part of Finland in 1920. At the end of the
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deemed it wise to disband it in 1764. As the Russian colonization of the
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of 1590–1595, is said to have been carried out by a Finnish peasant chief
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decreed the reestablishment of the monastery in Pechenga in 1997.
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Friis J.A.: The Monastery of Petschenga, 1896, online here:
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in the world. It was founded in 1533 at the influx of the
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Pechenga
Russian
Finnish
Norwegian
monastery
Pechenga River
Barents Sea
Murmansk
St. Tryphon
Novgorod
Solovki
Skolts
Russo-Swedish War
Pekka Antinpoika Vesainen
Fyodor I
Kola
Holy Synod
Kola Peninsula
Russian Revolution
Pechenga Bay
stauropegic
Continuation War
Moscow Armistice
were evacuated
New Valamo Monastery
age of 110
Russian Orthodox Church
The monastery church c. 1911 (photo by Ellisif Wessel)
Ellisif Wessel

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