St. Tikhon's Monastery Home page has been and will continue to be updated as of January 2009. We hope and pray for your support as we at St. Tikhon's Monastery are working to build up the monastery and community here for the Orthodox Church in America. We desire to build a new facility in the near future where vistors can come to find spiritual and physical refreshment. However, the monastery is and always will be open to the general public and desires to extend an invitation to all to visit, to pray, and to help us in this new beginning as we start to renew America's oldest Orthodox Monastery. Throughout the history of Christ’s Church, monasteries have served as centers of spiritual enlightenment, strongholds of Orthodox truth and piety, havens for those seeking salvation through ascetic struggle, prayer, and humility, and places of pilgrimage for those desirous of inner renewal, reflection, and spiritual guidance.
This has been the mission of the Monastery of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk for over one hundred years, since its establishment in 1905 as the first Orthodox monastery in North America. With God’s help, the monastery has steadfastly sought to fulfill this holy purpose, and by doing so, has proven indispensable to the life and growth of the Orthodox Church on this continent.
It is our hope that this website will serve not only as an introduction to the monastery for those unfamiliar with its rich history and significant impact on the Church in America, but also as means for the further glorification of God and His Saints who have walked these hallowed grounds.
History of the Monastery >
