The Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity gave rise to the Trinity-Varnitsky Monastery. The construction here of the first church dedicated to the Holy Trinity is shrouded in legends and traditions.
The most popular version claims that people built the church on the site of the house where Sergius of Radonezh was born and raised in an impoverished boyar family. In these places, while still a boy, he met a messenger of God who told his parents: the Holy Trinity would dwell in this child.
This messenger, in the guise of an old monk, also performed a miracle - Bartholomew (Sergius's secular name) simply could not learn to read and write and asked the elder to pray for him, and in response he gave him a prosphora and said that from then on he would be more learned than all his peers. The boy invited the elder into the house, where his parents warmly welcomed the monk. The future saint took a book and miraculously began to read the psalms well.
On the site where these miracles took place, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was founded in 1427, five years after the discovery of the saint's relics. The Trinity Cathedral became a stone church in 1763-1771.
After the 1917 Revolution, the monastery was closed, and almost all the buildings, including the cathedral, were destroyed; only the Vvedenskaya Church and some cells survived. The restoration of the monastery began in 1995, and the Trinity Cathedral was rebuilt anew, very similar to how it had looked before. The red church with white decor and a tall ornate bell tower is a true adornment of the monastery.
