- Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery
Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery ("Спасо-Яковлевский монастырь") situated to the left from the
Rostov kremlin on theRostov 's outskirts.It has been greatly venerated as the shrine of St
Dmitry of Rostov . Most of the monastery structures were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the fine neoclassical style.There are also two 17th-century churches, dedicated to the Conception of St Anna and to the Transfiguration of Our Saviour. Unlike most other churches in the town, the monastery belongs to the
Russian Orthodox y and houses a theologicalseminary .
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