The Ternivka Holy Ascension Women’s Monastery is the youngest community of the Dnipro diocese, opened in 1998 around a unique wooden church of 1908 built without a single nail . The church, which survived the revolution…
The Holy Znamensky Women’s Monastery in the village of Verbivske was one of the wealthiest and most powerful communities of the 19th century in southern Ukraine. Founded by the noblewoman Kateryna Vasylenko in the early…
The Monastery of St Joseph the Betrothed in Mariivka is the only monastic community in Ukraine dedicated to this quiet guardian of the Mother of God. The modest monastery on the bank of the Samarchyk river counts nearly…
The Holy Tikhvin Women’s Monastery in Dnipro is the only monastic community standing right in the regional capital, on the site of the old Katerynoslav women’s community of 1866. Its story is one of Abbess Maria, who bu…
The Samar St. Nicholas Desert Monastery is the oldest monastic community of the Dnipro region and the former principal shrine of the Zaporozhian Cossacks . It stands near Novomoskovsk, on an island formed by the Old and…
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…
