Monasteries: Vinnytsia Oblast

The St Nicholas (Sviato-Mykolaivskyi) Men’s Monastery of Sharhorod is one of the best-known Podillian monasteries, its history stretching between a Baroque monastic school that once taught up to 600 students and a Sovie…

The Holy Transfiguration (Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi) Men’s Monastery of Halaikivtsi in the village of Halaikivtsi, Mohyliv-Podilskyi district, is one of the most enigmatic monasteries of Podillia. Its first documentary ment…

The Holy Trinity Stavropegial Women’s Monastery of Nemyriv is an active convent in the ancient Podillian town of Nemyriv, whose roots go back to the 17th century, while local tradition pushes the beginnings of monastic …

The Hranivskyi (Hraniv) Holy Dormition Men’s Monastery in the village of Tyshkivska Sloboda of the Haisyn district is the former spiritual centre of the Haisyn region, whose history reaches back to the times of the Khme…

The Brailiv Holy Trinity Convent is one of the “Seven Wonders of Vinnytsia Oblast” and the most famous shrine of the town of Brailiv in the Zhmerynka region. Its history has two beginnings: the monastery itself was foun…

The Holy Feodorivskyi (St Theodore’s) Men’s Monastery in the Vapniarka town of the former Tomashpil district is the youngest monastery in our catalogue and one of the two monasteries of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in…

The Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist in Bar is a monastery of the Order of Saint Basil the Great (OSBM) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on Soborna Street, which revived the long tradit…

The Carmelite Monastery in Bar is one of the oldest Catholic monasteries of Podillia and a key landmark of the town of Bar in Vinnytsia Oblast. Carmelite friars settled in Riv (as the town was called before 1537) as ear…

Liadova Rock Monastery (the Holy Beheading Monastery) in the village of Liadova, Vinnytsia Oblast, is one of the oldest monasteries of Ukraine: by tradition it was founded in 1013 by…