New Valamo or
New Valaam (Finnish: Valamon luostari, or more informally, esp. in the postal
address: Uusi-Valamo) is an Orthodox monastery in Heinävesi, Finland. The
monastery was established in its present location in 1940.
The
relocation of the monastery
In 1939,
during the Winter War, some 190 monks from theValamo Monastery in Karelia were
evacuated from their old abode on a group of islands in Lake Ladoga in the
Viipuri Province to present Eastern Finland. The old Valamo Monastery was
occupied by the armed forces of the Soviet Union quite soon after the outbreak
of the Winter War.
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