Holy Trinity Markov Monastery

The Svyato-Troitsky Markov Monastery is one among current-day monasteries in Vitebsk. The 2nd, for girls, is Svyato-Dukhov Monastery. Markov Monastery was based within the 14th–15th century. A legend indicates that a certain Mark observed a place to live alone and built a chapel there. Afterwards he changed into joined by way of like-minded men and women, who shaped the monastery. The monastery existed until 1576, while it become abolished. At that point, the monastery's Тrinity Church have become a parish church. The monastery changed into revived in 1633 by a duke Lev Oginski.

In the 12th century the wooden Troitsky Cathedral and Pokrovskaya Church existed inside the monastery location. In 1656 Patriarch of Moscow Nikon presented the monastery with a incredible reproduction of Kazan Virgin icon. In 1690 the Pokrovskaya Church become burned down turned into reconstructed. In 1760 a stone cathedral was built to house the Kazan Virgin icon. After the October Revolution, in 1920, the Svyato-Troitsky Markov Monastery turned into again suppressed.