The Church of Saint Nicholas, the Patron of travelers and merchants, was built in 1774 in the time of hegumen Kirill (Kozlovsky) on a site of the former wooden church (built in 1660) on the donations of bargemen and rafts men; this church is one of the oldest landmarks on the left bank of Daugava river in Latvia. The size of the church is also remarkable, it is only 17x9,5 meters. It was seriously damaged during World War I. The memorial tablet on the church vestibule wall keeps the names of locals, who helped to restore the building. During the Soviet times the church was taken away from believers and transformed into an exhibition hall of Jēkabpils town Local History Museum. The building was returned to the monastery in the beginning of the 90s. There is a story of how Saint Nicholas church was built. Once upon a time some rich citizen of Holmhof sloboda (now Jēkabpils) noticed an old man going down the street. He asked his wife to invite the stranger for a meal, but when she went out, she could find nobody. On the next day, the citizen saw the old man again, called him and tried to follow, but the stranger disappeared near the river Daugava. Next night the citizen saw the old man in a dream and asked him: 'Who are you?' - 'I am Saint Nicholas', the man answered - 'Build a church near the river where you saw me'. That is how the building of the church started.

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