{"nrhp_refnum":"09000286","name":"Holy Trinity Monastery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1407 Robinson Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jordanville","county":"Herkimer County","state":"NY","lat":42.93069820450006,"lon":-74.9401055978883,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Performing Arts","Architecture","European","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Holy Trinity Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastic complex on about 750 acres at Jordanville, Herkimer County, New York. It has 56 contributing resources, including a cathedral, bell tower, seminary, convent, cemeteries and farm landscape, mostly built from the 1940s onward.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the monastery as the center of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, founded by monks who fled the Soviet Union. The cathedral, designed by R. N. Verkovsky in the Russian tent style and decorated by monk-iconographers, is an important example of its type. The complex is also noted for its publishing work and its role as a home for church leaders.","narrative":"Holy Trinity Monastery occupies about 750 acres of farmland and rolling hills on the northern edge of Jordanville, in Herkimer County. The Russian Orthodox community took shape in the 1930s and 1940s, when monks who had fled the Soviet Union settled here. The central campus is a quadrangle formed by the cathedral, a bell tower, the monastery building and the seminary. Holy Trinity Cathedral, built from 1946 to 1950 to designs by R. N. Verkovsky, follows the tent style of northern Russia and has pale yellow brick walls and nine gold onion domes. Monks carried out much of the construction, metalwork, carving and the icon painting that covers the interior. Other features include a convent, student and faculty housing, a guest house, two cemeteries, a lakeside fieldstone chapel and large wooden crosses. Together, 56 resources reflect a working religious community with a continuing role in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"R. N. Verkovsky, architect (Holy Trinity Cathedral); Fr. Kyprian, iconographer; much of the construction by the monks","architectural_style":"Other: Russian Traditional Tent Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a monastery, seminary, convent and cemetery. The land is no longer farmed by the brotherhood but is rented to local farmers.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.731668-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000286.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000286/cd1925c08f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000286/cd1925c08f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Павел Дроздовский","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_temple_of_the_Holy_Trinity_Monastery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Павел Дроздовский</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_temple_of_the_Holy_Trinity_Monastery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318148","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Monastery_(Jordanville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5886790"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/herkimer-county/holy-trinity-monastery-09000286/"}