St. Seraphims Hermitage: Home to the Russian Nuns…

Once known as the Moss Beach Club, this one-story wooden building

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was a popular gathering place, owned by the well known Angelo Martini family of Moss Beach, who later sold it to the Russian Nuns. Today the Russian Orthodox Monastery, is distinguished by a small “onion” dome and Russian Cross on its roof–and is concealed from the road by a green wall of Cypress trees.