New Jerusalem monastery, located on the outskirts of Istria, is a historical monument of national importance. The monastery with the Cathedral of the resurrection, the prototype of which was the Church of the Holy sepulchre in Jerusalem, was built in the SEVENTEENTH century at the insistence of the Patriarch Nikon. Now a part of the historic complex includes a Park, Museum of wooden architecture, historical, architectural and artistic. There is also a source of spring water, which is credited with healing properties.

The Cathedral complex is the Cathedral of the resurrection with the underground Church of Constantine and Helena, and with a bell tower – was completed to g. But in less than thirty years, as a stone tent of the resurrection Cathedral collapsed, and until 1761. the grandiose building was restored and partly rebuilt by V. V. Rastrelli and under the leadership of K. I. blank. After this Council has acquired the features of not only Moscow, but also Western European Baroque.

In g. under the supervision of architect Yakov Bukhvostov begins the construction of a stone fortress fence with gate Church of Entry into Jerusalem in the style of Moscow Baroque. The work lasted until 1697. In 1686-gg. with funds donated by Princess Tatiana Mikhailovna, in the monastery constructed refectory with the Church of the Nativity. In in 1698. to the Banquet and attach a hospital ward with a small Church of the Three Hierarchs. Later, in the early XVIII century, on a hospital ward put it on the top of the Royal Palace for the arrival of the Imperial family on a pilgrimage.

The refectories housing and hospital wards was placed next to the older building, erected in the monastery in 1650-ies It was the chamber's "monastic cubs" and the stone storage rooms. Last at the end of the seventeenth century were transformed into the Abbot's rooms. At the same time, next is the construction of the chambers of the Princess Tatiana Mikhailovna – a one-story brick building, standing between two contemporary fraternal buildings. House (or Palace) of the Princess rather modestly decorated in Baroque style; the appearance of it, and fraternal buildings, was severely distorted in the nineteenth century, and restored only after the great Patriotic war, in the 1960s, Since then and up to the XX century, the New Jerusalem remained Tsar's prayer, the Imperial family had given him a lot of support and often.

In terms of the fence of the monastery is an irregular hexagon with perimeter more than a kilometer. In her eight towers, some of which are named for a gate in Jerusalem: Damascus, Gethsemane, mount Zion. The name they received in the XVIII century. All the towers are separated by slabs on the floors, the lower of which was used by the brethren for household needs, and the top – like cells. In the galleries on major holidays such as Candlemas or lady day – was celebrated processions.

Not far from the walls of the New Jerusalem, in the garden of Gethsemane, on an artificial island in g. had been given a "skit" of Patriarch Nikon (otherwise known as the Epiphany desert). In g. the building was rebuilt. The result was a high building on three floors, combining living quarters with a house Church at the top. Crowned with its octagonal dome light drum. Skit decorated with polychrome tiles, unfortunately, not preserved in its entirety.

The walls of the New Jerusalem, in the garden of Gethsemane, is a small architectural-ethnographic Museum, who collected the wooden buildings of suburban villages. Its exhibits include a chapel, a farm, a mill.