Kyrylivskyi Monastery (the church of Saints Cyril and Athanasius of Alexandria) is one of the oldest surviving shrines of Kyiv: a princely monastery-mausoleum of the Chernihiv Olhovych dynasty, founded in 1139 in the Do…
Mezhyhirskyi monastery was the pride of the Zaporozhians (Khmelnytskyi, Mazepa, Palii): a hospital and a chronicle. Allegedly burnt in 1786, razed in 1935 for dachas.
The Ioninsky monastery was founded by Ven. Iona after a vision of the Theotokos on the Zvirynets hills; once 800 monks, today a Lavra skete.
Kytaiv Hermitage is a skete of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra with 14th-century caves, elders Dosifey and Feofil, and the 1763–67 Trinity church. Visiting guide.
Holosiivska Pustyn — a men’s monastery in Kyiv’s Holosiiv Forest, founded in 1631 by Metropolitan Petro Mohyla; resting place of Saints Parthenius of Kyiv and Alexis of Holosiiv; demolished in Soviet times and revived in 1993.
The Holy Ascension Florivskyi Monastery — the oldest women’s monastery of Kyiv (16th c.) on Podil: the Ascension Cathedral (1722–1732), Abbess Maria-Mahdalyna Mazepa and the relics of St Olena of Kyiv.
St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, founded in 1108 by Sviatopolk II: Kyiv’s first gilded dome, the relics of St Barbara, demolition in 1937 and the 1997–1999 rebuilding.
Vydubychi Monastery in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s oldest monasteries (11th c.): the workplace of the chronicler Sylvester, St Michael’s Church of 1070 and the Baroque St George Cathedral of 1696–1701.
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 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…
