{{monastery|name=Valaam Monastery<br> of Transfiguration of the Saviorjurisdiction=Church of Russia<br>Stavropegic status|type=Male Monastery|founded=before 1600|superior=Abbot<br> [[Archimandrite]] Pankraty (Zherdev)||size= about 200 monks|hq= Valaam Island|language= Slavonic|music=Russian Chant|calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|feasts=unknown|website=[http://www.valaam.ru/en/ website]}}'''Valaam Monastery of Transfiguration of the Savior;;;''', more popularly '''Valaam Monastery''' is a [[monastery]] of the [[Church of Russia]] located in Karelia in northwestern Russia on the island of Valaam in Lake Ladoga. The monastery was an outpost of evangelism in the north of Russia. In the 1790s the monastery provided the group of eight missionaries that was sent to Alaska in the North American northwest to evangelize the natives for Orthodox Christianity. This group of [[monasticism|monastics]] included [[Herman of Alaska|St Herman]] and [[Juvenaly of Alaska|St Juvenaly]].