Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, New York)
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Holy Trinity Monastery
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Holy Trinity Monastery Cathedral
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| Nearest city | 1407 Robinson Road, Jordanville, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°55′39″N 74°56′02″W / 42.92750°N 74.93389°WCoordinates: 42°55′39″N 74°56′02″W / 42.92750°N 74.93389°W |
| Area | 750 acres (300 ha) |
| Architect | R.N. Verkovsky (Main Church), Dimitri Blachev (Chapel by the Lake) |
| NRHP Reference # | 09000286 |
| Added to NRHP | June 23, 2011 |
Holy Trinity Monastery (Russian: Свя́то-Тро́ицкий монасты́рь, Svyato-Troitsky Monastyr) is a male stavropegialmonastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), located near Jordanville, New York. Founded in 1930 by two Russian immigrants, it eventually became a main spiritual center of Russian Orthodoxy in the West. The monastery is well known for its publishing work and for the attached Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, which has educated many clergymen in ROCOR and other Orthodox jurisdictions. Due to their closeness to the hamlet, both the monastery and seminary are often simply referred to as Jordanville. The monastery is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and its patronal feast day is Pentecost.
Hieromonk Panteleimon (Nizhnik), after spending ten years at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Monastery near South Canaan, Pennsylvania, wanted to live a more rigorous monastic life. Moreover, after a 1926 split between ROCOR and the group which would later become the Orthodox Church in America, he wanted to stay with the Church Abroad. He shared this desire with Ivan Kolos, a local choir director living at the monastery. Together they decided to find a place to live a “genuine monk’s life.” They traveled to Herkimer County in Upstate New York, where they bought the Starkweather farm near Jordanville for a $25 down payment. In order to pay off the mortgage, Panteleimon worked at the Sikorsky Airplane Factory in Stratford, Connecticut as a wing mechanic, while Kolos remained at his parish.
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