The Monastery of Saint Basil the Great (UGCC) in Lutsk is Volhynia’s oldest Basilian cloister, whose roots reach back to princely times: after the decline of Kievan Rus’ from 1240, a monastery of Saint John the Theologi…
The Basilian Monastery of Saint Josaphat in Volodymyr is a UGCC cloister that grew up on the site of the ancient church of Saint Paraskevia, where the hieromartyr Josaphat Kuntsevych received the Sacrament of Baptism. T…
The Zahoriv Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God is an ancient Volhynian cloister near the village of Novyi Zahoriv in the Lokachi district, whose history reputedly reaches back to the 12th century; its first …
The Monastery of the Nativity of Christ in Volodymyr is a community gathered around the former Jesuit cathedral of 1755–1770 in the heart of Volhynia’s ancient capital. The masonry church has survived a Jesuit mission, …
The Zhydychyn St Nicholas Monastery is one of the oldest cloisters in Ukraine, standing in the village of Zhydychyn of the Kivertsi district of Volyn Oblast, a few kilometres from Lutsk. Its first written mention is fou…
The Skete of the Nativity of Saint John the Forerunner in Verbka is a small men’s monastery on an island amid the floodplains of the Turiya river, on the site of a 16th-century cloister forever linked with the name of P…
The Holy Trinity Starosilskyi Women’s Monastery is a young convent of the Volyn Eparchy that grew on the ruins of a former missile-forces base and an abandoned farmstead. Founded in 2006 by the first sisters of the Mykh…
The Holy Cross (Khrestovozdvyzhenskyi) Chartoryiskyi Men’s Monastery is a monastery on a hill above the river Styr in the village of Staryi Chartoryisk of the Kamin-Kashyrskyi district, whose masonry walls remember the …
The Holy Presentation (Stritenskyi) Mykhnivskyi Women’s Monastery is a convent on the Mykhnivka homestead of the Kamin-Kashyrskyi district, gathered around a wooden church of 1642 — one of the oldest wooden sacral monum…
The SS Peter and Paul Svityaz Men’s Monastery is a young Volhynian monastery that has grown on the shore of Lake Svityaz, Ukraine’s deepest karst lake. It stands on the foundation of the old Svityaz parish, documented s…
The Dormition Men’s Monastery of Nyzkynychi is a gem of Volhynian Baroque, founded in 1643 by the magnate Adam Kisel (Kysil) . Its five-domed Dormition church in the form of an equal-armed cross, its 17th-century walls …
The St Nicholas Men’s Monastery of Milet (Myiets) in the village of Myltsi, Stara Vyzhivka district, is one of the oldest and once wealthiest monasteries of Volhynian Polissia, the former “family monastery” of the Sangu…
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…
