The authorities of the Podolsky district of the Odessa region want to open a unique underground monastery "Paradise Garden".

The monument of history and architecture - a unique underground monastery in the Kazbeki village of the Lipetsk village council - was visited by the acting head of the Podolsky district administration Alexey Buryachenko, the rural head of Raisa Tinkovan and a group of staff of the RGA.

During the visit, they discussed the issues of preserving the sights, which is of national importance and entered in the relevant register.

In addition, the possibility of opening tourist routes to the underground monastery.

It should be noted that the unique building in Kazbek was built in 1913 by the supporters of the priesthood of hieromonk Inokentiy Baltsky.

Here there are about 100 thousand. Square. M of underground communications, 89 cells (in which it was possible to place 5 thousand. Man), three churches, of which two are large one small.

Above the monastery on the territory of 54.6 hectares the apple orchard was broken up, there were farm buildings, land chapels, a font and a well 52 meters deep.

The caves were clarified with the help of lenses that dissipate the sunlight.

"After the revolution, ground structures were eliminated, and entrances to the dungeon were filled up. For a long time the monastery was not considered as an object of cultural heritage. Over its facilities are agricultural works. Black archaeologists dig out the entrance to the caves. Open access to 18 cells and a wine cellar. The churches of the monastery were decorated with icons, including precious ones. Pilgrims came here from Bessarabia, Romania, Russia and even Yugoslavia. Creation of his parishioners "Paradise Garden" or "New Jerusalem" was named Innokenty Baltsky, returning from the Solovetsky Monastery in 1917, "local historians.

On the site of the monastery there was a church and a chapel. Historians note that there are no such monuments of architecture in Europe.