Holy Trinity Monastery

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.