New Valamo - Heinävesi, Finland
Posted by: marcius
N 62° 33.783 E 028° 47.437
35V E 592043 N 6938183
New Valamo is an Orthodox monastery in Heinävesi, Finland. The monastery was established in its present location in 1940.
Waymark Code: WMFJND
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 10/27/2012
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"In 1939, during the Winter War, some 190 monks from the Valamo Monastery in Karelia were evacuated from their old abode on a group of islands in Lake Ladoga in the Viipuri Province to present Eastern Finland. The old Valamo Monastery was occupied by the armed forces of the Soviet Union quite soon after the outbreak of the Winter War.
After a temporary dwelling place the monks decided to settle down in Heinävesi in Eastern Finland. The choice fell on a mansion in Papinniemi, Heinävesi, after the monks had found there, quite surprisingly, an icon of St. Sergius and St. Herman of Valaam, the founders of the monastery in the 12th century. The monks considered this to be a sign from God. Having received evacuees from the Konevsky (Konevitsa) and Pechenga (Petsamo) monasteries, it is now the only monastery for men of the Finnish Orthodox Church."
-Wikipedia