Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery

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Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery (Спасо-Яковлевский монастырь) situated to the left from the Rostov kremlin on the Rostov'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 Orthodoxy and houses a theological seminary.