Maniava Skete is a monastery of the Exaltation of the Cross in the Carpathians near the village of Maniava, long known for the severity of its rule as the “Ukrainian…
The Krekhiv Monastery of St Nicholas in Lviv Oblast is one of the best-known Basilian monasteries in Ukraine. It was founded by two monks who came from the Kyiv Caves…
The Mhar Transfiguration Monastery near Lubny in Poltava Oblast is an outstanding monument of Ukrainian Baroque and one of the most important spiritual centres of the Left Bank. Two patriarchs…
The Mezhyrich Holy Trinity Monastery in Rivne Oblast is one of the most impressive fortified monasteries in Ukraine from the 15th–17th centuries. Thick walls with loopholes, round towers and two…
The Zymne Holy Dormition Monastery in the village of Zymne in Volhynia is one of the oldest monastic houses in Ukraine, a contemporary of the Tithe Church in Kyiv. It…
The monasteries of Ukraine number more than five and a half hundred active houses, from the cave lavras of the princely era to modern sketes in the Carpathians. This article…
The Holy Dormition Univ Lavra is the only Greek Catholic lavra in Ukraine and one of only four in the country. It is a men’s monastery of the Studite Rule…
The Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra is an Orthodox monastery in Sviatohirsk, Donetsk Oblast, carved into the chalk cliffs above the Siverskyi Donets river. It is the youngest of Ukraine’s lavras…
The Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra is the greatest Orthodox shrine in western Ukraine and the country’s second most important lavra. Its history is remarkable for a fact often passed over…
The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves) is the oldest and most important monastery in Ukraine, founded in 1051 as a cave monastery outside the walls of…
