The Basilian Monastery of the Sacred Heart of Christ in the village of Zvanivka , Bakhmut district, Donetsk Oblast, is the only Greek-Catholic monastic house of the Order of Saint Basil the Great (OSBM) in Donbas. Found…
The Holy Dormition Mykolo-Vasylivskyi Monastery is a unique monastic complex in the village of Mykilske , in the Volnovakha district (now near Vuhledar) of Donetsk Oblast. It consists of two communities : the men’s St N…
The Holy Sergiyevsky Women’s Monastery is a community in the village of Serhiivka , in the Sloviansk (now Kramatorsk) district of Donetsk Oblast, 10 kilometres from Kramatorsk. It arose in 2002 from a parish church cons…
The Holy Iberian (Iverska) Women’s Monastery is a community in Donetsk, founded in 2002 at the church in honour of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God on the city’s Orthodox cemetery. It grew out of a dependency (meto…
The Monastery of the Kasperivska Icon of the Mother of God is a women’s community in the settlement of Hruzko-Lomivka in Donetsk Oblast, founded in 1997 . It is dedicated to one of the most venerated wonder-working icon…
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 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…
