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Patriarch Nikon Minin founded the Novy Ierusalime Monastery in 1656. He based its design on the famous Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Nikon intended to build a series of holy places in the Moscow suburb of Istra as replicas of the sacred sites of Palestine. The Patriarch lived for eight years in the monastery, devoting all his energy to the construction so that Russians could familiarise themselves with the Passion of Christ without needing to take a long and expensive journey to the Middle East.
2 March 2015
Pavel Inzhelevsky
Ruslan Faizulin
Russia Behind the Headlines
http://rbth.com/multimedia/video/2015/03/02/new_jerusalem_44103.html
Voices from Russia 
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